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Reading the body in the eighteenth-century novel

'Offering insight into the ways in which eighteenth-century novelists expected their readers to draw on common understandings about expression, gesture and character, this is a lively and useful study.' - Times Literary Supplement.

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Main Authors: McMaster, Juliet.
Published:
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Acting techniques.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230512023
Summary: 'Offering insight into the ways in which eighteenth-century novelists expected their readers to draw on common understandings about expression, gesture and character, this is a lively and useful study.' - Times Literary Supplement.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2004.
Carrier Form: 216 p.
ISBN: 9781403933140
9780230512023 :
023051202X :
CLC: I561.074
Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations The Body Inside the Skin: The Medical Model The Body Illegible: Tristram Shandy Physiognomy: The Index of the Mind Facial Expression: The Mind's Construction in the Face Reading and Re-Encoding the Body: Clarissa Gesture: Suiting the Action to the Word Body Language Censored: Camilla Epilogue: And On to Jane Austen Works Cited Index.

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