Reading Eating Disorders : Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions of American Culture

Name: Reading Eating Disorders
Brand: Peter Lang AG
SKU: 9783631506196
Price: 10200 KES
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ISBN: 9783631506196

by Greta Olson

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Neue Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

ISBN-10 3631506198

ISBN-13 9783631506196

Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 8th, 2003

Print length 308 Pages

Weight 422 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 21.00 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general Literary studies: from c 1900 -Gender studies: women

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Reading Eating Disorders uses literary texts as a key to open the door of American culture. Novels and poems on disordered eating reveal America’s bulimic relationship to food and the tendency to punish individuals – particularly women and the poor – for not being slender. These texts partake of the confessional ethos in American public culture – the need to testify to and hear about intimate physical details. Tracing the history of eating disorders and Western culture’s idealization of thinness with reference to canonical literary works such as Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market (1859) and Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–8), the author illustrates anorexia, bulimia, and the binge-eating disorder using contemporary accounts of these disorders. A cultural studies approach to literature is taken to describe how writings on eating disorders reveal the political and economic world out of which they are written.

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