Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush

by Mary Ann O'Farrell

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318954
• ISBN13: 9780822318958
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"