Zellizabeth’s Reviews > Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend > Status Update

'Gothic heroines fainted so much Because Tight Corsets' is not the amazing argument you think it is- the alternative explanation you present of it being a variant on the 'fight, flight, freeze' response is much stronger, so I don't know why the corset thing was even included. (Also, as a writer, fainting is an easy way to end a scene and get a character out of a situation...)