Victorian literature anorexic body 1st Edition by Anna Krugovoy Silver ISBN 0511020600 9780521816021

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ISBN 10: 0511020600 

ISBN 13: 9780521816021

Author: Anna Krugovoy Silver 

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.

Table of contents:

1: Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness

2: Appetite in Victorian children’s literature

3: Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette

4: Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm

5: Christina Rossetti’s sacred hunger

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