Telling ComplexionsIn Telling Complexions Mary Ann OFarrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry James, OFarrell illuminates literatures relation to the body and the bodys place in culture. In the process, she plots a trajectory for the nineteenth century novels shift from