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Jane Austen has been read as a novelist of manners, whose work avoids discussing the physical. The author shows, on the contrary, how important are faces and bodies in her texts. Drawing on both modern - medical and feminist - theories of illness and the body, this book offers readings of these familiar texts.Wiltshire, John is the author of 'Jane Austen and the Body 'the Picture of Health'', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521024990 and ISBN 0521024994.
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