Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health' - Image 1

£39.04

Cambridge University Press Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'

Name: Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 39.04 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£39 today · previous high £39 · all-time low £36

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 91 days · 91 data points

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 91 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £38 (41 days, 45.1%)

Price range: £36 - £39

Price levels: 4 different prices over 91 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521024994
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 January 2008
Listed Since: 02 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues

The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Complete Critical Guide Jane Austen (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Jane Austen's Anglicanism

Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: 'a fling at the slave trade'

Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives (Historical Women's Writing)

Jane Austen, Young Author

Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790–1820: 9 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 9)

Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

Northanger Abbey (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen)

Janeites: Austen's disciples and devotees

Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith: Influences and Borrowings

The 'Fat' Female Body

Jane Austen: A Literary Life (MacMillan Literary Lives)

Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty

Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen

Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

Medicine and the Body

A Jurisprudence of the Body (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies)

Body Talk in the Medical Humanities: Whose Language?

The Language of Jane Austen (Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style)

Greatest Works of Jane Austen

Charlotte Bronte and Sexuality