Victorian literature and the anorexi...
Silver, Anna Krugovoy,

 

  • Victorian literature and the anorexic body /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/356
    書名/作者: Victorian literature and the anorexic body // Anna Krugovoy Silver.
    其他題名: Victorian Literature & the Anorexic Body
    作者: Silver, Anna Krugovoy,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
    附註: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    標題: Women in literature.
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Anorexia nervosa in literature.
    標題: Women and literature - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Eating disorders in literature.
    標題: Human body in literature.
    標題: Body image in literature.
    標題: Sex role in literature.
    標題: Appetite in literature.
    標題: Hunger in literature.
    ISBN: 9780511484926 (ebook)
    內容註: Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness -- Appetite in Victorian children's literature -- Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette -- Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm -- Christina Rossetti's sacred hunger -- Conclusion: the politics of thinness.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484926
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