Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Download or read book Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by J. McMaster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McMaster's lively study looks at the various codes by which Eighteenth-century novelists made the minds of their characters legible through their bodies. She tellingly explores the discourses of medicine, physiognomy, gesture and facial expression, completely familiar to contemporary readers but not to us, in ways that enrich our reading of such classics as Clarissa and Tristram Shandy , as well as of novels by Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen.