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Victorian literature and the anorexic body /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Silver, Anna Krugovoy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.