Anne Elliot & Frederick Wentworth | G l a n c e
Johnson explores Austen’s use of blushes, beating hearts, physical gestures, and almost-contact—devices that weave a web of physicality around Anne and Wentworth. “Little circumstances—when eyes just miss, […] whether by accident or intent—are interspersed among more dramatic scenes in which a man and woman feel acutely each other’s physical presence,”
- ‘The Physical Pleasures of Jane Austen’s Persuasion’ by Erin Blakemore















