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Author Silver, Anna Krugovoy.

Title Victorian literature and the anorexic body / Anna Krugovoy Silver.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 220 pages).
Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.
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.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Anorexia nervosa in literature.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Eating disorders in literature.
Human body in literature.
Body image in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Appetite in literature.
Hunger in literature.
Women in literature.
Medicine in Literature.
Anorexia Nervosa -- history.
Culture.
History, 19th Century.
Human Body.
Women -- history.
England.
English literature.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 1.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Anorexia nervosa in literature. (OCoLC)fst00809962
Appetite in literature. (OCoLC)fst00811574
Body image in literature. (OCoLC)fst00835358
Eating disorders in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901226
English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762
Hunger in literature. (OCoLC)fst00964110
Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Anorexia nervosa.
Vrouwelijkheid.
Frau.
Anorexia nervosa.
Geschichte.
Literatur.
Geschichte 1837-1901.
Körper.
Großbritannien.
Englisch.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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
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