Ji Won Chung

Picturing Women's Health

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9781848934245
• ISBN-10: 1848934246
• Artikelnr.: 43750875

Autorenporträt

Ji Won Chung is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

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