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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

Author : Anna Krugovoy Silver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434802
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body written by Anna Krugovoy Silver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Krugovoy 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. 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.

Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766672
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination written by Katherine Byrne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature

Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317119355
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature written by Lesa Scholl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature, Lesa Scholl explores the ways in which the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional and intellectual want to create a dynamic, evolving notion of hunger. Scholl's interdisciplinary study emphasises literary analysis, sensory history, and political economy to interrogate the progression of hunger in Britain from the early 1830s to the late 1860s. Examining works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew, and Charlotte Bronte, Scholl argues for the centrality of hunger in social development and understanding. She shows how the rhetoric of hunger moves beyond critiques of physical starvation to a paradigm in which the dominant narrative of civilisation is predicated on the continual progress and evolution of literal and metaphorical taste. Her study makes a persuasive case for how hunger, as a signifier of both individual and corporate ambition, is a necessarily self-interested and increasingly violent agent of progress within the discourse of political economy that emerged in the eighteenth century and subsequently shaped nineteenth-century social and political life.

Waisted Women

Author : Anna Krugovoy Silver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Waisted Women written by Anna Krugovoy Silver and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victorian Sensations

Author : Kimberly Harrison
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210317
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Sensations written by Kimberly Harrison and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectable Victorian realism. Victorian Sensations is the first collection to examine sensation fiction as a whole, showing it to push genre boundaries and resist easy classification. Comprehensive in scope, this collection includes twenty original essays employing various critical approaches to cover a range of topics that will interest many readers." "Essays are organized thematically into three sections: issues of genre; sensational representations of gender and sexuality; and the texts' complex readings of diverse social and cultural phenomena such as class, race, and empire. The introduction reviews the critical reception of sensation fiction to situate these new essays within a larger scholarly context."--BOOK JACKET.

The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating

Author : Marion Gymnich
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3899717759
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating written by Marion Gymnich and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death. In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine. It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture. --

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144223234X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian literature’s fascination with the past, its examination of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to fascinate scholars and contemporary readers. During the past hundred years, traditional formalist and humanist criticism has been augmented by new critical approaches, including feminism and gender studies, psychological criticism, cultural studies, and others. In Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature, twelve scholars offer new assessments of Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfiction. Their essays examine several major authors and works, and introduce discussions of many others that have received less scholarly attention in the past. General reviews of the current status of Victorian literature in the academic world are followed by essays on such writers as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and the Brontë sisters. These are balanced by essays that focus on writing by women, the development of the social problem novel, and the continuity of Victorian writers with their Romantic forebears. Most importantly, the contributors to this volume approach Victorian literature from a decidedly contemporary scholarly angle and write for a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. Their essays offer readers an idea of how critical commentary in recent years has influenced—and in some cases changed radically—our understanding of and approach to literary study in general and the Victorian period in particular. Hence, scholars, teachers, and students will find the volume a useful survey of contemporary commentary not just on Victorian literature, but also on the period as a whole.

Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Katie Kapurch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137581697
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century written by Katie Kapurch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. By defining melodrama, however, through its Victorian lineages, Katie Kapurch recognizes melodrama's aesthetic form and rhetorical function in contemporary girl culture while also demonstrating its legacy since the nineteenth century. Informed by feminist theories of literature and film, Kapurch shows how melodrama is worthy of serious consideration since the mode critiques limiting social constructions of postfeminist girlhood and, at the same time, enhances intimacy between girls—both characters and readers.

Self-Harm in New Woman Writing

Author : Alexandra Gray
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474417698
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Self-Harm in New Woman Writing written by Alexandra Gray and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman.

Understanding Eating Disorders

Author : Simona Giordano (bioetyka)
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199269742
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Eating Disorders by : Simona Giordano (bioetyka)

Download or read book Understanding Eating Disorders written by Simona Giordano (bioetyka) and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with an analysis of these conditions and an exploration of their complex causes, Giordano then proceeds to address legal and ethical dilemmas such as a patient's refusal of life-saving treatment. The book is illustrated with many case-studies.

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century

Author : Theophilus Savvas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009287303
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century written by Theophilus Savvas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century re-assesses both canonical and less well-known literary texts to illuminate how vegetarianism and veganism can be understood as literary phenomena, as well as dietary and cultural practices. It offers a broad historical span ranging from ancient thinkers and writers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary novelists, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. The expansive historical scope is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises that the philosophy behind these diets has developed through a dialogic relationship between east and west. The book demonstrates, also, the way in which carnivorism has functioned as an ideology, one which has underpinned actions harmful to both human and non-human animals.

Too Much

Author : Rachel Vorona Cote
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538729717
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Too Much written by Rachel Vorona Cote and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang) A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with laughter. Women who are one or more of these things have heard, or perhaps simply intuited, that we are repugnantly excessive, that we have taken illicit liberties to feel or fuck or eat with abandon. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm, hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes, or spraying out spit in the heat of expostulation, we've flinched-ugh, that was so gross. I am so gross. On rare occasions, we might revel in our excess--belting out anthems with our friends over karaoke, perhaps--but in the company of less sympathetic souls, our uncertainty always returns. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval, from within as well as without. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional, physical, and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's "hysterical" behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us "Too Much."

Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels

Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521593239
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of popular women novelists in mid-Victorian Britain and beliefs about femininity and disease.

Writing Size Zero

Author : Isabelle Meuret
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052012827
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Writing Size Zero written by Isabelle Meuret and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like hysteria, anorexia is a fin de siècle pathology which fascinates and has reached epidemic proportions at the turn of the millennium. Parallel to the development of the phenomenon, an important body of experiential texts has revealed its presence in various parts of the world. While the medical discourse is still struggling with this conundrum, literature gives way to different interpretations by revealing the interconnectedness between writing and starving. Both signifying practices are experiences of the limit where fluxes of particles - food, words - are in constant interaction. Unlike most contemporary readings of anorexia, this book offers an original insight into the creative process inherent to the pathology, which the author calls Writing Size Zero. Body of writing and writing of the body, as found in western and post-colonial texts, delineate an in-between space producing new epistemologies. Through a close reading of the semiotics of self-starvation, the author debunks the myth of anorexia as a mental disease of the West and insists on the variety of expressions and figurations inherent to the pathology. By providing a meaning to self-starvation, writing gives anorexia its ethics.

Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401205914
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005. This volume will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care provider who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which we can understand health, illness and disease

Exercise and Eating Disorders

Author : Simona Giordano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134024266
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Exercise and Eating Disorders written by Simona Giordano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with ED typically exercise to excessive, often harmful, levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from an ethical and legal perspective, identifying the rights and responsibilities of people with EDs, their families, and the fitness professionals and clinicians that work with them.

Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society

Author : Claudia Bernardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350137790
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society written by Claudia Bernardi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how women's relationship with food has been represented in Italian literature, cinema, scientific writings and other forms of cultural expression from the 19th century to the present. Italian women have often been portrayed cooking and serving meals to others, while denying themselves the pleasure of the table. The collection presents a comprehensive understanding of the symbolic meanings associated with food and of the way these intersect with Italian women's socio-cultural history and the feminist movement. From case studies on Sophia Loren and Elena Ferrante, to analyses of cookbooks by Italian chefs, each chapter examines the unique contribution Italian culture has made to perceiving and portraying women in a specific relation to food, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.