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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Collection: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
36. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |