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Victorian literature and the anorexic body / / Anna Krugovoy Silver [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Silver Anna Krugovoy Visualizza persona
Titolo: Victorian literature and the anorexic body / / Anna Krugovoy Silver [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 820.9/356
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-216) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Victorian Literature & the Anorexic Body
Titolo autorizzato: Victorian literature and the anorexic body  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-13428-5
0-511-48492-5
0-511-14796-1
0-511-32576-2
1-280-15973-1
0-511-12078-8
0-521-02551-6
0-511-04584-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780289903321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 36.