LEADER 03905nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910806893703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-13428-5 010 $a0-511-48492-5 010 $a0-511-14796-1 010 $a0-511-32576-2 010 $a1-280-15973-1 010 $a0-511-12078-8 010 $a0-521-02551-6 010 $a0-511-04584-0 035 $a(CKB)111082128285936 035 $a(EBL)202182 035 $a(OCoLC)475917114 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484926 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202182 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202182 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10021403 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15973 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128285936 100 $a20020427d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVictorian literature and the anorexic body /$fAnna Krugovoy Silver 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (x, 220 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v36 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-81602-5 311 $a0-511-02060-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-216) and index. 327 $aWaisted 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. 330 $aAnna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Bronte?, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman. 410 0$aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v36. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnorexia nervosa in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEating disorders in literature 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aBody image in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aAppetite in literature 606 $aHunger in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnorexia nervosa in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEating disorders in literature. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aBody image in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aAppetite in literature. 615 0$aHunger in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a820.9/356 700 $aSilver$b Anna Krugovoy$01626953 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806893703321 996 $aVictorian literature and the anorexic body$93963280 997 $aUNINA