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Picturing Women’s Health
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Artikel-Nr:
9780367875954
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.12.2019
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Ji Won Chung
Gewicht:
318 g
Format:
234x156x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ji Won Chung is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women¿s health in this period.
1. Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde 2. Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda 3. Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain 4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Bronte's Villette 5. The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century 6. Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse 7. Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siecle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902 8. The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895-1910 9. Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900