Cambridge University Press, Date: 1992-10-30. Hardcover. Used: Good. 1992. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521414768 9780521414760 [US]

ISBN10: 0521414768, ISBN13: 9780521414760, [publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge] Hardcover xi-xiii, 251pp, red boards with small sticker adhesive mark to back cover. Good condition. Title in gilt. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
[Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]
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ISBN10: 0521414768, ISBN13: 9780521414760, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover First Edition Fine First Edition hardcover in like protectedd/j. Dedicated to owner (and signed by author as "John") on ffep. Signed by author on title page. A fascinating analysis of the context of Jane Austen's novels. 251pp.
[Warrandyte, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1992]

Cambridge Cambridge 1994 Hard Cover Good 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xi-xiii, 251pp, red boards with small sticker adhesive mark to back cover. Good condition. Title in gilt.

New. 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. ISBN 0521414768 9780521414760 [GB]

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Cambridge University Press, Date: 1992. Hardcover. New. 1992. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521414768 9780521414760 [IN]