'A transcript of actual life': Headache in the novels of Jane Austen.

References to headache in the novels of Jane Austen have been examined. Nine characters, all female, suffer headache at one time or another, often in association with emotionally stressful situations. As an authorial device, headache may have served Jane Austen as a culturally sanctioned form of bod...

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Publicado en:Headache: The Journal of Head & Face Pain Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 692 - 696
Autor principal: Larner AJ
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2010
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Sumario:References to headache in the novels of Jane Austen have been examined. Nine characters, all female, suffer headache at one time or another, often in association with emotionally stressful situations. As an authorial device, headache may have served Jane Austen as a culturally sanctioned form of bodily expression.