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Disorderly eaters : texts in self-empowerment / edited by Lilian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1992.Description: 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0271008717 (paper : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN56.F59 D57 1992
Contents:
Introduction / Lilian R. Furst -- Cannibalism and Starvation: The Parameters of Eating Disorders in Literature / Paulo Medeiros -- "The Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker": An Eating Disorder in Betty MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle / J. Ellen Gainor -- Magic Food, Compulsive Eating, and Power Poetics / Mervyn Nicholson -- Medea and Beloved: Self-Definition and Abortive Nurturing in Literary Treatments of the Infanticidal Mother / Lillian Corti -- Double Standard in the Flesh: Gender, Fasting, and Power in English Renaissance Drama / Nancy A. Gutierrez -- Angel's Food: A Case of Fasting in Eighteenth-Century England / Joanna B. Gillespie -- The Order and Disorder of Eating in Byron's Don Juan / Peter W. Graham.
Holdings
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PN56.F59D57 1992 1 Available 33710000760228

Includes bibliographical references.

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Introduction / Lilian R. Furst -- Cannibalism and Starvation: The Parameters of Eating Disorders in Literature / Paulo Medeiros -- "The Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker": An Eating Disorder in Betty MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle / J. Ellen Gainor -- Magic Food, Compulsive Eating, and Power Poetics / Mervyn Nicholson -- Medea and Beloved: Self-Definition and Abortive Nurturing in Literary Treatments of the Infanticidal Mother / Lillian Corti -- Double Standard in the Flesh: Gender, Fasting, and Power in English Renaissance Drama / Nancy A. Gutierrez -- Angel's Food: A Case of Fasting in Eighteenth-Century England / Joanna B. Gillespie -- The Order and Disorder of Eating in Byron's Don Juan / Peter W. Graham.