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Telling Complexions - The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush (Paperback, New)
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Telling Complexions - The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush (Paperback, New)
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In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use
of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner
emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works
by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens,
and Henry James, O'Farrell illuminates literature's relation to the
body and the body's place in culture. In the process, she plots a
trajectory for the nineteenth-century novel's shift from the
practices of manners to the mode of self-consciousness. Although
the blush was used to tell the truth of character and body,
O'Farrell shows how it is actually undermined as a stable indicator
of character in novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion,
North and South, and David Copperfield. She reveals how these
writers then moved on in search of other bodily indicators of
mortification and desire, among them the swoon, the scar, and the
blunder. Providing unique and creative insights into the
constructedness of the body and its semiotic play in literature and
in culture, Telling Complexions includes parallel examples of the
blush in contemporary culture and describes ways that textualized
bodies are sometimes imagined to resist the constraints imposed by
such construction.
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