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

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19980101
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Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush, by Mary Ann O'Farrell.

In Telling Complexions, Mary Ann O'Farrell takes a Foucauldian and Barthesian look at the blush in the l9th-century English novel. According to O'Farrell, the blush is at once an act of self-expression and of somatic confession; its use in the English novel serves to institutionalize the blush as a form of bodily discipline and of erotic art. O'Farrell first considers the blush in the works of Jane Austen, and then turns to other somatic signs such as the swoon, the scar, and the blunder, which ...

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