Name: Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (en Inglés)
SKU: 18957153
Price: 78900.00 CLP
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Author: Wiltshire
ISBN: 9780521024990

portada Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (en Inglés)

Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Wiltshire

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

268

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0521024994

ISBN13

9780521024990

N° edición

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Literatura: historia y crítica

Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (en Inglés)

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Jane Austen has been read as a novelist of manners, whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are faces and bodies in her texts, from complainers and invalids like Mrs Bennet and Mr Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax, and the 'picture of health', Emma. Talk about health and illness in the novels is abundant, and constitutes community, but it also serves to disguise the operation of social and gender politics. Behind the medical paraphernalia and incidents are serious concerns with the nature of power as exerted through and on the body, and with the manifold meanings of illness. 'Nerves', 'spirits', and sensibility figure largely in these books, and Jane Austen is seen to offer a critique of the gendering power of illness and nursing or attendance upon illness. Drawing both on modern - medical and feminist - theories of illness and the body as well as on eighteenth-century medical sources to illuminate the novels, this book offers new and controversial, but also scholarly, readings of these familiar texts.