Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in t

A study of women's bodies and eating disorders as depicted in Victorian literature.

This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

In Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature, Lesa Scholl explores the ways in which the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional and

"Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectabl