Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'

by John Wiltshire

Book Overview

Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces, illness and health, in the novels, from complainers and invalids such as Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax and the picture of health, Emma. The book draws on modern theories of the body, and on eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024994
• ISBN13: 9780521024990
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"