Victorian literature and the anorexic body /

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Author / Creator:	Silver, Anna Krugovoy.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 220 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.
Subject:	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. Medicine in Literature. Anorexia Nervosa -- history. Culture. History, 19th Century. Human Body. Women -- history. Anorexia nervosa in literature. Appetite in literature. Body image in literature. Eating disorders in literature. English literature. Human body in literature. Hunger in literature. Sex role in literature. Women and literature. Women in literature. England. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125611

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ISBN:	0511020600 9780511020605 0511120788 9780511120787 9780521816021 0521816025 9780511484926 0511484925 9780511045844 0511045840 0511147961 9780511147968 1107134285 9781107134287 0511325762 9780511325762 1280159731 9781280159732 0521025516 9780521025515
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-216) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Silver, Anna Krugovoy. Victorian literature and the anorexic body. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521816025

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