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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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The Etiquette of the Toilette-table: a Manual of Utility. ... By an Officer's Widow
Author: The Etiquette of the Toilette-table ...
Author: EtiquetteVictorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Author: Anna Krugovoy SilverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139434802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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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.
Aging by the Book
Author: Kay HeathPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.
A Complete Guide to Canada. The emigrant's hand-book of facts, with directions how to proceed in his arrangements ... New edition
Author: Samuel BUTLER (Settler in Australia.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The Keepsake for the Nursery
Author: KeepsakeThe Moral, Intellectual, and Physical Training of the Young Explained, Illustrated, and Enforced. Being a New Edition of Mrs. C.'s Mother's Book
Author: Lydia Maria ChildThe Weather Indicator. How to Judge of the Weather to Come, from the Position of the Moon, at Its Rising and Setting; by the Appearance of the Sun and the Stars, Etc
Author: The Old Orthodox Faith Superior to Modern Opinions: Or Truth and Error Surveyed in the Light of History and Fact, Etc
Author: John Gordon LORIMER (D.D.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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