Description |
1 online resource (x, 220 pages). |
Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36 |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-216) and index. |
Contents |
Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness -- Appetite in Victorian children's literature -- Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette -- Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm -- Christina Rossetti's sacred hunger -- Conclusion: the politics of thinness. |
Summary |
"Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat, and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals, and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women "performed" their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic girl or woman."--Jacket. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Anorexia nervosa in literature.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Eating disorders in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Body image in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Appetite in literature.
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Hunger in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Medicine in Literature.
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Anorexia Nervosa -- history.
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Culture.
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History, 19th Century.
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Human Body.
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Women -- history.
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England.
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English literature.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 1.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Anorexia nervosa in literature. (OCoLC)fst00809962
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Appetite in literature. (OCoLC)fst00811574
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Body image in literature. (OCoLC)fst00835358
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Eating disorders in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901226
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762
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Hunger in literature. (OCoLC)fst00964110
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Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Anorexia nervosa.
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Vrouwelijkheid.
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Frau.
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Anorexia nervosa.
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Geschichte.
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Literatur.
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Geschichte 1837-1901.
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Körper.
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Großbritannien.
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Englisch.
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Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Other Form: |
Print version: Silver, Anna Krugovoy. Victorian literature and the anorexic body. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521816025 (DLC) 2002070883 (OCoLC)49773789 |
ISBN |
0511020600 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511020605 (electronic bk.) |
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0511120788 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511120787 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511484926 (electronic bk.) |
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0511484925 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511045844 (electronic bk.) |
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0511045840 (electronic bk.) |