Reading Eating Disorders : Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions of American Culture
by
Greta Olson
Book Details
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: generalLiterary 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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