Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521025515
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; English literature--19th century--History and; English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies
First sentence: The remarkable similarity between Orbach's and Ellis's observations indicates that the wish to adapt to one predominant standard of beauty bridges nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's experiences, and that contemporary complaints about the tyranny of slenderness have antecedents in the Victorian era.