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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154998403321

Autore

Gutierrez Nancy A. <1951-, >

Titolo

"Shall she famish then?" : female food refusal in early modern England / / Nancy Gutierrez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90064-1

1-315-24330-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 pages)

Collana

Women and Gender in the early Modern World

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Eating disorders in literature

Eating disorders - England - History

Hunger strikes - Psychological aspects

Fasting - Psychological aspects

Food habits in literature

Sex role in literature

Women in literature

Food in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Contexts and methodologies -- 2. The public rendering of Margaret Ratcliffe's death -- 3. Fasting and prayer in A woman killed with kindness : religious salvation and political resistance -- 4. 'Starved! starved!' : anatomy and food refusal in John Ford's The broken heart -- 5. 'The maiden neither eate nor drank one morsel or droppe' : miracle maidens as colonial objects.