Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)

by Anna Krugovoy Silver

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521025516

ISBN13:9780521025515

Release Date:March 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences Women Authors

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