Victorian literature and the anorexic body
著者
書誌事項
Victorian literature and the anorexic body
（Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, [36]）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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, 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.
目次
- 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.
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