6. In Sickness and in Health: Courting and Nursing in Some Jane Austen Novels

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2021

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Nora Bartlett et al., « 6. In Sickness and in Health: Courting and Nursing in Some Jane Austen Novels », Open Book Publishers


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I’m going to be talking about the role of illness in Jane Austen’s novels, but I want to begin with her own last illness: not so much the controversy about what exactly the illness was (though I will touch on that) as what her experience of illness, and its treatment, was. Her letters rarely complain about her symptoms, more often joking than complaining about what sound like alarming experiences, but they do describe them, and it is possible to use stray remarks in her letters to build up a picture...

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