TY - BOOK ID - 77901005 TI - Victorian literature and the anorexic body. PY - 2006 SN - 1107134285 0511484925 0511147961 0511325762 1280159731 0511120788 0521025516 0511045840 9780521816021 0521816025 9780521025515 9780511484926 0511020600 9780511020605 9780511120787 9780511045844 9780511147968 9781107134287 9780511325762 9781280159732 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Anorexia nervosa in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Eating disorders in literature. KW - Human body in literature. KW - Body image in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Appetite in literature. KW - Hunger in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - 820-3 "18/19" KW - 820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901005 AB - 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 Brontèˆ, 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. ER -