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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body by Anna Krugovoy Silver

Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

Anna Krugovoy Silver

236 pages paperback 2002

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Anna 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 argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serve...

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