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Victorian literature and the anorexic body / Anna Krugovoy Silver.

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Main Author: Silver, Anna Krugovoy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Anorexia nervosa in literature.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Eating disorders in literature.
Human body in literature.
Body image in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Appetite in literature.
Hunger in literature.
Women in literature.
English literature.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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.

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