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.
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
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.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521025515 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 03/30/2006 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , #36 |
| Edition description: | Reissue |
| Pages: | 236 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.94(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.47(d) |
| Lexile: | 1520L (what's this?) |
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