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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| 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.