UID:
almafu_9959237920102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-13428-5
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0-511-48492-5
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0-511-14796-1
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0-511-32576-2
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1-280-15973-1
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0-511-12078-8
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0-521-02551-6
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0-511-04584-0
Serie:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36
Inhalt:
Anna Krugovoy 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. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-81602-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-511-02060-0
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484926
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