Victorian literature and the anorexic body /
"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...
Основен автор: | Silver, Anna Krugovoy. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Серия: |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
36. |
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=78379 |
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Print version::
Victorian literature and the anorexic body. |
Съдържание:
- 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.