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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 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: 9780521816021
ISBN-10: 0521816025
Publication Date: 8/26/2002
Pages: 234
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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