Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health' by John Wiltshire

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

John Wiltshire

268 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 inval...

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