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John Wiltshire is one of the world's leading Jane Austen scholars. His three books on Austen are Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health' (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Recreating Jane Austen (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Jane Austen: Introductions and Interventions (Delhi: Macmillan, 2003). His edition of Mansfield Park in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen , was published in October 2005 and he is working on a book provisionally titled Austen and England: critical politics .

John Wiltshire is also a Johnson scholar. A contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, he has published Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: the Doctor and the patient (Cambridge University Press, 1991: republished in paperback 2006) and a lecture in the Johnson Society of Australia series, Jane Austen's 'Dear Dr Johnson' (2000). His current Johnsonian project is a book for the Icons series published by Helm Information, provisionally called The Making of Dr Johnson . In addition, Wiltshire has published articles on Frances Burney, intermediary between Johnson and Austen, and has contributed the chapter on Frances Burney's Journals for the Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney ed. Peter Sabor (forthcoming 2006).

John Wiltshire also specialises in and writes on 'literature and medicine', more especially forms of narrative in medical contexts, and medicine, nursing and narrative. He is an International Contributing Editor on the journal Literature and Medicine . With Paul A. Komesaroff, he has published Drugs in the Health Marketplace (Melbourne: Arena 1995), and, in collaboration with Judith M. Parker, articles and chapters on nursing practice in various journals and collections. With Paul Komesaroff and Philipa Rothfield, he has edited Sexuality and Medicine: bodies, practices, knowledges (XLibris 2004). In preparation is Medical Progress and Patient Experiences.

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

• ' Jane Austen's Comic Theatre' The Cambridge Quarterly 32, 4, 2003, pp. 367-42.
• 'Decolonising Mansfield Park ' Essays in Criticism 53, 4, October 2003, pp. 303-22.
• 'The Comedy of Emma ' and 'Health, Comfort and Creativity: a Reading of Emma ' in Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen's Emma , ed. Marcia Folsom, New York: Modern Language Association 2004, pp. 55-60, 169-170.
• With Judith M. Parker, 'Researching story and narrative in nursing: an object-relations approach', Advanced Qualitative Research for Nursing , ed. Joanna Latimer, Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2003, pp. 97-114.
• 'Jane Austen's England, Jane Austen's World', Re-drawing Austen, ed. Beatrice Battalia and Diego Saglia, 125-36 Liguoris Editore 2004.
• 'A History of Medicine from Viewpoint of the Patient', Internal Medical Journal , 35, March 2005, 193-5.
• 'Medicine, Health, Embodiment', Jane Austen in Context , ed. Janet Todd, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.