{"product_id":"victorian-literature-and-the-anorexic-body-9780521025515","title":"Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna Krugovoy Silver | Gillian Beer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613238313111,"sku":"9780521025515","price":5103.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521025515.webp?v=1775083652","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/victorian-literature-and-the-anorexic-body-9780521025515","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}