Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Picturing Women's Health
- 1 Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde
- 2 Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
- 3 Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
- 5 The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century
- 6 Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse
- 7 Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882–1902
- 8 The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895–1910
- 9 Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900
- NOTES
- Index
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CONTENTS
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Picturing Women's Health
- 1 Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde
- 2 Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
- 3 Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
- 5 The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century
- 6 Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse
- 7 Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882–1902
- 8 The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895–1910
- 9 Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900
- NOTES
- Index
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- Picturing Women's Health , pp. v - viPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014