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- catalog abstract ""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 Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic girl or woman."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12574937.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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 Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic girl or woman."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 220 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521816025 (hc.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 36".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "2005 G-316".
- catalog subject "820.9/356 21".
- catalog subject "Anorexia Nervosa England History.".
- catalog subject "Anorexia nervosa in literature.".
- catalog subject "Appetite in literature.".
- catalog subject "Body image in literature.".
- catalog subject "Culture England.".
- catalog subject "Eating disorders in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century England.".
- catalog subject "Human Body England.".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hunger in literature.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Literature England.".
- catalog subject "PR468.A58 S55 2002".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "WZ 330 S5867v 2002".
- catalog subject "Women England History.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Victorian literature and the anorexic body / Anna Krugovoy Silver.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".