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Explores the frequent use of the blush in novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry James. This is about literature's relation to the body, and the body' s place in culture, and discusses the 19th-century novel's shift from the practices of manners to the mode of self-consciousness. A blush is supposed to tell us the truth about a person's character, but is undermined as a reliable indicator in novels like Pride and Prejudice. Duke University Press, 1997. Paper. NEW. $22.00 Show more