03929nam 22008052 450 991045597280332120151005020621.01-107-13428-50-511-48492-50-511-14796-10-511-32576-21-280-15973-10-511-12078-80-521-02551-60-511-04584-0(CKB)111082128285936(EBL)202182(OCoLC)475917114(UkCbUP)CR9780511484926(MiAaPQ)EBC202182(Au-PeEL)EBL202182(CaPaEBR)ebr10021403(CaONFJC)MIL15973(EXLCZ)9911108212828593620090226d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVictorian literature and the anorexic body /Anna Krugovoy Silver[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (x, 220 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;36Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-81602-5 0-511-02060-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-216) and index.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.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 Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman.Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;36.Victorian Literature & the Anorexic BodyEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAnorexia nervosa in literatureWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEating disorders in literatureHuman body in literatureBody image in literatureSex role in literatureAppetite in literatureHunger in literatureWomen in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Anorexia nervosa in literature.Women and literatureHistoryEating disorders in literature.Human body in literature.Body image in literature.Sex role in literature.Appetite in literature.Hunger in literature.Women in literature.820.9/356Silver Anna Krugovoy1051575UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910455972803321Victorian literature and the anorexic body2482187UNINA