Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness
- 2 Appetite in Victorian children's literature
- 3 Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette
- 4 Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm
- 5 Christina Rossetti's sacred hunger
- Conclusion: the politics of thinness
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Waisted women: reading Victorian slenderness
- 2 Appetite in Victorian children's literature
- 3 Hunger and repression in Shirley and Villette
- 4 Vampirism and the anorexic paradigm
- 5 Christina Rossetti's sacred hunger
- Conclusion: the politics of thinness
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body , pp. 179 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002