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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

by Anna Krugovoy Silver , Gillian Beer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780521025515
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 236
  • Original Price: GBP 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reissue
  • Item Weight: 368 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Anna 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. She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic female.

Silver, Anna Krugovoy: - Anna Krugovoy Silver is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Mercer University. She has published essays in Studies in English and Victorians Institute Journal.

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