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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Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230512023 |
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'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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Ebook. Originally published in: 2004. |
Carrier Form: | 216 p. |
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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. |