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Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminising of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatises as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with the methods and assumptions of deconstruction in mind, this book finds that Frost himself forces a deconstructive reading: his unstable ironies, his complexities and his manipulations of form are designed precisely to produce the conviction that any suggestion of significance is arbitrary and personal. The study unites biography, psychology and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation.

Feminism and literature --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- Poetics --- Frost, Robert Lee --- Criticism and interpretation --- Frost, Robert, - 1874-1963 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Appetite in literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Poetry --- Psychological aspects. --- Frost, Robert, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Frost, Robert Lee, --- פראסט, ראבערט, --- פרוסט, רוברט, --- فروست ، روبرت --- Фрост, Роберт,

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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