Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

By: Anna Krugovoy Silver, Gillian Beer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 8 August 2002

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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 Bront«, 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.

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'Silver's rigorous investigation of the relationship between anorexia and Victorian literature and culture has the revelatory effect of crystallizing latent knowledge.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Literary Studies of Fiction

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

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