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 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Victorian literature and the anorexic body. |
| Резюме: |
"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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 220 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-216) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0511020600 9780511020605 0511120788 9780511120787 9780521816021 0521816025 9780511484926 0511484925 9780511045844 0511045840 0511147961 9780511147968 |