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Eating disorders in literature. --- Food habits in literature. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.

German fiction --- German fiction --- Eating disorders in literature. --- German fiction --- Heroines in literature. --- Eating disorders in literature. --- German fiction. --- German fiction --- Heroines in literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- 1700-1899.

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"Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present day. This cross-cultural volume explores the fictional portrayal of these self-destructive yet arguably self-empowering behaviours in contemporary French, German and Italian women's writing. Covering autobiography, fiction and autofiction, the chapters included here outline different aspects of the cultural encodings of anorexia in Europe today. Contributors analyse how literary texts not only recount but also interrogate wider cultural representations of eating disorders, particularly with regard to concepts of (gender) identity, the body, the relationship with the mother, and the relation between food and words. This volume seeks to draw out the multiple meanings of anorexia as both a rebellion against and conformity to dominant (and gendered) socio-political structures. It explores the ways in which contemporary women's novels and memoirs both describe and, importantly, also redefine eating disorders in present-day Europe."--

Body image in literature. --- Body image in literature. --- Eating disorders in literature. --- Eating disorders in literature. --- Essstörung --- European literature --- European literature --- European literature --- European literature --- European literature. --- Frauenliteratur. --- Littérature européenne --- Littérature --- Troubles du comportement alimentaire --- Women in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Femmes écrivains --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature. --- 1900-2099.

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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.