Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body:36 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 36)

Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body:36 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 36)

by: Anna Krugovoy Silver (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Anna Krugovoy Silver Page See search results for this author Anna Krugovoy Silver (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (8 Aug. 2002)

Language: English

Print length: 236 pages

ISBN-10: 0521816025

ISBN-13: 9780521816021

Book Description

Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body – hunger, appetite, fat and slendeess – 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.

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