Descript |
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) |
Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36 |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.
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Bibliog. |
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.
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Anorexia nervosa in literature.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Eating disorders in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Body image in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Appetite in literature.
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Hunger in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Medicine in literature.
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Culture.
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Medicine in Literature
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Anorexia Nervosa -- history
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Culture
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History, 19th Century
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Human Body
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Women -- history
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England
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culture note. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 |
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Culture. (OCoLC)fst00885059 |
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Anorexia nervosa in literature. (OCoLC)fst00809962 |
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Appetite in literature. (OCoLC)fst00811574 |
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Body image in literature. (OCoLC)fst00835358 |
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Eating disorders in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901226 |
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989 |
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Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762 |
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Hunger in literature. (OCoLC)fst00964110 |
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Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649 |
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093 |
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912 |
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623 |
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Anorexia nervosa |
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Geschichte |
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Literatur |
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Ko⁺rper |
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Gro©Ґbritannien |
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Frau |
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Letterkunde. |
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Engels. |
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Anorexia nervosa. |
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Vrouwelijkheid. |
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Geschichte 1837-1901. |
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Englisch. |
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1800-1899 |
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