title: Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History
author: J. Heydt-Stevenson
description: "This is a book that will forever change the way we read Jane Austen's fiction. In a series of compelling and well-documented analyses, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson shows us that Austen's work is replete with sexual jokes, bawdy humor, double-entendres, erotic puns. Moreover, she persuasively argues that for Jane Austen, the mind cannot be separated from the body: sense and sensibility, consciousness and physical sensations, thought and feeling, are inextricably fused."-- Anne K. Mellor," Romantic Circles"
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  > > “Clarissa,” he pleaded in a low husky tone, finishing with the wrap. He
  > forcefully removed her hands from his arms, his darkened gaze fixed on hers.
  > “There is no point in dredging up the past.”
  
  > > She closed her eyes, swaying with relief at being able to draw deep,
  > unfettered breaths with the wrap removed. James caught her and held her
  > against him, his hands settling at her bare waist. Clarissa set her own
  > hands on his. “I assumed that you wanted all of me too. How could I have
  > been so wrong?”
  
  > > She opened her eyes and looked at him, catching her breath at the depth of
  > emotion that played over his face. He felt the pain too, deep down in his
  > heart, where she couldn’t have known it was hiding.
  
  > > And then he kissed her hard, his lips bruising hers as he demanded more.
  > His tongue forced her mouth open, plunging with a possessiveness that both
  > terrified and excited Clarissa. He picked her up, the strength of his arms
  > wrapped around her, c