Ravenous identity : eating and eating distress in the life and work of Virginia Woolf
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Ravenous identity : eating and eating distress in the life and work of Virginia Woolf
Macmillan, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index
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Description
Leonard Woolf has described how, when Virginia Woolf's distress was at its most acute, "for weeks almost at every meal one had to sit, often for an hour or more, trying to induce her to eat a few mouthfuls". Drawing upon Alison Glenny's personal experience of anorexia, this work is a feminist consideration of Virginia Woolf's use of self-starvation as a life tool and food as a complex artistic metaphor. Glenny attempts to understand what underlay this distress for Virginia Woolf as an individual, an understanding which she arrives at by examining the way in which food and eating are symbolically expressed and explored in both Woolf's life and her work.
Table of Contents
Note on Quotations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Prologue: Anorexia: A Perspective from the Other Side My Food is Affection Entirely my Weight Rests on his Prop The Voyage Out: A Slave to One's Body in this World Jacobs Room: Flyblown like Sugar Cakes Mrs. Dalloway: And Left them Blackberrying in the Sun To the Lighthouse: An Instinct like Artichokes for the Sun The Waves: Some Fasting and Anguished Spirit The Years: The Admirable Mutton Between the Acts: Soles Filleted
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