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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- 82:396 --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Grotesque in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Grotesque in literature --- Human body in literature --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism
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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 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.
English literature --- Anorexia nervosa in literature. --- Women and literature --- Eating disorders in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body image in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Appetite in literature. --- Hunger in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- 820-3 "18/19" --- 820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- History and criticism
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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.
Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Eating disorders in literature. --- English fiction. --- English fiction - Women authors - History and crit. --- Food habits in literature. --- Food in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Women and literature. --- English fiction --- Food in literature --- Women and literature --- Consumption (Economics) in literature --- Eating disorders in literature --- Human body in literature --- Food habits in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History --- Gastronomy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Carter, Angela --- Lessing, Doris --- Roberts, Michèle --- Ellis, Alice Thomas --- Atwood, Margaret --- ROMAN ANGLAIS --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- CORPS HUMAIN DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NOURRITURE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE --- ANGLETERRE --- Writers --- Food --- Book --- Auteurs. --- Boek. --- Literatuur. --- Thematologie. --- Verhalend proza. --- Voeding. --- Voedingshygiene Dieet. --- Atwood, Margaret. --- Carter, Angela. --- Ellis, Alice Thomas. --- Lessing, Doris. --- Roberts, Michele.
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