The wasting heroine in German fiction by women 1770-1914 / Anna Richards.
- Richards, Anna, 1962-
- Date:
- [2004], ©2004
- Books
About this work
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.
Contributors
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 1999.
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-217) and index.
Languages
Subjects
- German fiction18th centuryHistory and criticism
- German fiction19th centuryHistory and criticism
- Eating disorders in literature
- German fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism
- Women and literatureGermany.
- Heroines in literature
- Anorexia Nervosahistory
- Authorship
- Feeding and Eating Disordershistory
- Medicine in Literature
- Womenhistory
- 18th-20th centuries
- Germany
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineUA.AI.37Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 0199267545
- 9780199267545