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Author:

Silver, Anna Krugovoy.

Title:

Victorian literature and the anorexic body / Anna Krugovoy Silver.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

x, 220 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Anorexia nervosa in literature.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Eating disorders in literature.
Body, Human, in literature.
Body image in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Appetite in literature.
Hunger in literature.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-216) and index.

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36

ISBN:

9780521816021
0521816025

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49773789

LCCN:

2002070883

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)