Speaking in Hunger: Gender, Discourse, and Consumption in Clarissa (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) - Hardcover

Frega, Donnalee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570032262 ISBN 13: 9781570032264

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

Drawing on history, clinical studies and literature, this study approaches anorexia as a dangerous strategy employed by healthy young people of both sexes against unrealistic expectations of perfection. It is illustrated by a reading of "Clarissa", Samuel Richardson's novel of a "fasting" girl.

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Review

This is a book that invites its readers to enter into a dialogue with it-an invitation all the more tempting because the book itself is written in deliciously lucid, elegant prose. Frega's book deserves to be read by scholars of Richardson, of the eighteenth-century novel, of women's studies, and of cultural studies, as well as by many others.-South Atlantic Review

Edition details

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570032262
• ISBN 13: 9781570032264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180