Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

Informationen zum Autor Anna Krugovoy Silver is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Mercer University. She has published essays in Studies in English and Victorians Institute Journal. Klappentext A study of women's bodies and eating disorders as depicted in Victorian literature. Zusammenfassung 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 discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Conclusion: the politics of thinness; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Krugovoy Silver, Anna Krugovoy (Mercer University Silver
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025515
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02551-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies