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'Silver's rigorous investigation of the relationship between anorexia and Victorian literature and culture has the revelatory effect of crystallizing latent knowledge.' The Times Literary Supplement
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"Anna Krugovoy Silver's book [has] an immediate relevancy and edge. Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body convincingly shows that the paradigms of anorexia are at work in almost every Victorian text...[T]his book provides a readable and straightforward account and a helpful summary of the literature on anorexia and Victorianism." Kirstie Blair, St. Peter's College, Oxford, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies
"Silver offers an analysis of what she terms the 'Victorian culture of anorexia,' a culture that links feminine slenderness with such moral qualities as self-control and piety.... [T]he book is lucid and well written. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice
"...fascinating and well-researched..." English Literature In Transition 1880-1920
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture),Anna Krugovoy Silver,Gillian Beer,Cambridge University Press,0521816025,19th Century English Literature,19th century,Anorexia nervosa in literature,English literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Gender Studies,Great Britain,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Sociology,Women Authors,Women In English Literature,Women and literature,English,English literature--19th century--History and criticism,Literary studies: 19th century,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century,Social Science / Gender Studies
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