The wasting heroine in German fiction by women 1770-1914
Richards, AnnaAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2004.
In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anorexia Nervosa
Authorship
History, 19th Century
Medicine in Literature
Women
History, 18th Century
Eating Disorders
Literature
History, Modern 1601-
Writing
Persons
Humanities
History
Mental Disorders
Language Arts
Psychology
Language
Communication
Information Science
Germanic Literature
Languages & Literatures