{"product_id":"victorian-literature-and-the-anorexic-body-paperback","title":"Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Krugovoy Silver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna 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, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Bront , Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic female.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.14 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453368811698,"sku":"9780521025515","price":79.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b2e9b013088fc25789d9e2f5cc672eab.webp?v=1778828675","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/victorian-literature-and-the-anorexic-body-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}