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- catalog abstract ""In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry James, O'Farrell illuminates literature's relation to the body and the body's place in culture. In the process, she plots a trajectory for the nineteenth-century novel's shift from the practices of manners to the mode of self-consciousness." "Although the blush was used to tell the truth of character and body, O'Farrell shows how it is actually undermined as a stable indicator of character in novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, North and South, and David Copperfield. She reveals how the writers of these novels then moved on in search of other bodily indicators of mortification and desire, among them the swoon, the scar, and the blunder. Providing unique and creative insights into the constructedness of the body and its semiotic play in literature and in culture, Telling Complexions includes parallel examples of the blush in contemporary culture and describes ways that textualized bodies are sometimes imagined to resist the constraints imposed by such construction."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10242538.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry James, O'Farrell illuminates literature's relation to the body and the body's place in culture. In the process, she plots a trajectory for the nineteenth-century novel's shift from the practices of manners to the mode of self-consciousness." "Although the blush was used to tell the truth of character and body, O'Farrell shows how it is actually undermined as a stable indicator of character in novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, North and South, and David Copperfield. She reveals how the writers of these novels then moved on in search of other bodily indicators of mortification and desire, among them the swoon, the scar, and the blunder. Providing unique and creative insights into the constructedness of the body and its semiotic play in literature and in culture, Telling Complexions includes parallel examples of the blush in contemporary culture and describes ways that textualized bodies are sometimes imagined to resist the constraints imposed by such construction."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Austen's Blush: Pride and Prejudice -- 2. Mortifying Persuasions, or the Worldliness of Jane Austen -- 3. Gaskell's Blunders: North and South -- 4. Dickens's Scar: Rosa Dartle and David Copperfield -- 5. The Mechanics of Confusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-178) and index.".
- catalog extent "182 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Telling complexions.".
- catalog identifier "0822318954 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822319039 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Telling complexions.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Telling complexions.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "823/.809353 20".
- catalog subject "Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Knowledge Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Blushing in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Knowledge Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Emotions in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 Knowledge Psychology.".
- catalog subject "PR868.B58 O34 1997".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Psychology in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Austen's Blush: Pride and Prejudice -- 2. Mortifying Persuasions, or the Worldliness of Jane Austen -- 3. Gaskell's Blunders: North and South -- 4. Dickens's Scar: Rosa Dartle and David Copperfield -- 5. The Mechanics of Confusion.".
- catalog title "Telling complexions : the nineteenth-century English novel and the blush / Mary Ann O'Farrell.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".