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The author 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. She argues that anorexia nervosa serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain.Silver, Anna Krugovoy is the author of 'Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521025515 and ISBN 0521025516.
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