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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 36) by Anna Krugovoy Silver; NetLibrary, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Anna 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 argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic female.</p>
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- Author
- Anna Krugovoy Silver; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Uk ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521816021
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Medical
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (21 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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