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The body in illness and health : = A consideration of the Jane Austen canon.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The body in illness and health :/
Reminder of title:	A consideration of the Jane Austen canon.
Author:	Gorman, Anita Grace.
Description:	1 online resource (329 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International53-03A.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9113534click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798645402990

The body in illness and health : = A consideration of the Jane Austen canon.
Gorman, Anita Grace.

The body in illness and health :A consideration of the Jane Austen canon. - 1 online resource (329 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation discusses Jane Austen's depiction of the physical body in both its ill and healthy states. Austen derived her approach to the human body in part as a response to contemporary medical theory and practice. In a century where diagnosis was difficult and treatment often unsuccessful, Austen learned to distrust the ministrations of physicians. In a century where hysteria and hypochondria often substituted for rational behavior, Austen learned as well to distrust such unproductive emotional reactions. Born into a time when novels of sensibility rose and then declined in popularity, Austen read, enjoyed, but also recognized the deficiencies of these novels and their hysterical characters whose symptoms violated the moderate traditions of English culture to which Austen and her family gave their allegiance. Austen lost loved ones to illness and death, endured a hypochondriac mother, and experienced the strictures eighteenth-century life placed on middle-class women. Her chief weapon to defend herself against the difficulties of her life and the excesses of her culture lay in comedy and satire which ridiculed the unhealth of her society. The Juvenilia abound in hysterical women and men, characters who choose to faint and emote rather than to act with purpose. In her major novels as well, whether in the Gothic imaginings of Catherine Morland, the hysteria of Mrs. Bennet, the valetudinarianism of Mr. Woodhouse, or the hypochondria of the Parkers, Austen holds up to ridicule what she considers to be ineffectual physical and emotional reactions to the stresses of eighteenth-century life, at that same time admitting that physical illness itself may serve the purpose of cleansing and strengthening character. Like the physiognomists before her, Austen depicts characters who conform to stereotypes of strength or weakness, heroism or folly, at the same time carefully connecting physical description with inner character. Sensitive to the ways in which the body acts out the demands of the psyche, Austen creates men and women who blush and blanch according to significant emotional demands. Throughout the Austen canon, the physical body in both its healthy and sickly states subtly reveals the inner life.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798645402990Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Austen, JaneIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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