Picturing women's health / edited by Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung.

Other author Scott, Francesca.
Other author Scarth, Kate.
Other author Chung, Ji Won.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; Brookfield, Vermont, USA : Pickering & Chatto, 2014.
Descriptionxiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesWarwick series in the humanities ; number 4
Warwick series in the humanities ; no. 4.
Contents Introduction: Picturing women's health / Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung -- 1 Sensibility and good health in Charlotte Smith's 'Ethelinde' / Joseph Morrissey -- 2 Amazonian fashions: Lady Delacour's (re)dress in Maria Edgeworth's 'Belinda' / Andrew McInnes -- 3 Transforming the body politic: food reform and feminism in nineteenth-century Britain / Sarah Richardson --4 Stagnation of air and mind: picturing trauma and miasma in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette' / Alexandra Lewis -- 5 The iconography of anorexia nervosa in the long nineteenth century / Susannah Wilson -- 6 Kate Marsden's leper project: on sledge and horseback with an outcast missionary nurse / Tabitha Sparks -- 7 Constructs of female insanity at the fin de siècle: the Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902 / Katherine Ford -- 8 The fitness of the female medical student, 1895-1910 / Claire Brock -- 9 Unstable adolescence/unstable literature? Managing British girls' health around 1900 / Hilary Marland.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014451289
ISBN9781848934245 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1848934246 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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