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Item Details
Title:
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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND THE ANOREXIC BODY
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By: |
Anna Krugovoy Silver, Gillian Beer |
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Paperback |
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£36.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521025516 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521025515 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
18 February, 2006 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture No. 36 |
Pages: |
236 |
Description: |
A study of women's bodies and eating disorders as depicted in Victorian literature. |
Synopsis: |
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, 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. |
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2 b/w illus. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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