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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Anna Krugovoy Silver
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521025515
ISBN-10: 0521025516
Publication Date: 3/30/2006
Pages: 234
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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