The wasting heroine in German fiction by women 1770-1914 / Anna Richards.

  • Richards, Anna, 1962-
Date:
[2004], ©2004
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Description

"Drawing on a number of primary medical sources, she constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour, and wasting diseases in particular, and examines the portrayal of the 'wasting heroine' in works by female and selected male authors in this context"--from jkt.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Clarendon Press, [2004], ©2004.

Physical description

224 pages ; 24 cm.

Notes

Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 1999.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-217) and index.

Contents

'On peut le comparer...à une sorte de maladie': women and medicine, 1770-1914 -- 'Die zarte Pflanze welkte hin': wasting women in German fiction by men, 1770-1914 -- 'Ich sterbe, weil ich dich liebte': conventional wasting in fiction by women, 1770-1914 -- 'Man stirbt wirklich nicht aus Liebesgram, obschon Ihr Männer dieses gerne glauben möchtet': alternative wasting heroines -- 'Die bleichen, vom Nichtsthun, von Sehnsucht und Enttäuschung verzehrten Mädchen': repression and apathy in Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) -- 'Freiheit will ich! körperlose, schrankenlose!': Helene Böhlau (1856-1940), Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919), and the emancipatory value of illness, food refusal, and vegetarianism.

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    History of Medicine
    UA.AI.37
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ISBN

  • 0199267545
  • 9780199267545