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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Silver, Anna Krugovoy (Mercer University, Georgia)
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Silver, Anna Krugovoy (Mercer University, Georgia)
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. She discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll.
236 pages, 2 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 30, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521025515 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 230 × 19 mm · 362 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Beer, Gillian |