Victorian literature and the anorexic body / Anna Krugovoy Silver.

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Silver, Anna Krugovoy

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 220 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511020600
9780511020605
0511120788
9780511120787
9780521816021
0521816025
9780511484926
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0521025516
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victorian literature and the anorexic body.DDC classification:

820.9/356 21

LOC classification:

PR468.A58 S55 2002eb

NLM classification:

2005 G-316
WZ 330

Other classification:

18.05

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Contents:

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.

Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-216) and index.

"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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