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BL
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1012621
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b766991
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| Main Entry
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Glenny, Allie,1963-
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Ravenous identity : : eating and eating distress in the life and work of Virginia Woolf /\ Allie Glenny.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: St. Martin's Press,, 1999.
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1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)
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| ISBN
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0312299419
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: 1281366536
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: 6611366539
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: 9780312299415
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: 9781281366535
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: 9786611366537
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0312213336
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9780312213336
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Quotations and Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Anorexia: A Perspective from the Other Side; 2 My Food Is Affection; 3 Entirely My Weight Rests on His Prop; 4 The Voyage Out: A Slave to One's Body in This World; 5 Jacob's Room: Helping Himself to Jam; 6 Mrs. Dalloway: Blackberrying in the Sun; 7 To the Lighthouse: An Instinct Like Artichokes for the Sun; 8 The Waves: Some Fasting and Anguished Spirit; 9 The Years: The Admirable Mutton; 10 Between the Acts: Soles. Filleted; Notes; Texts Cited in Abbreviation; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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In this debut book, Glenny (Ph. D., English literature), a former anorexic, attributes the "omnipresence" of food in the writing of Virginia Woolf to her "premature weaning" (at ten weeks), the early death of her mother, and, most significantly, sexual abuse by her half-brother. While this densely written study breaks new ground in Woolf scholarship, Glenny goes too far by becoming an apologist for anorexia. Instead of simply showing how important food was as a metaphor for Woolf, Glenny makes disturbing comments such as anorexia can, at its most positive, function as a bell.
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Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Psychology.
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Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941.
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Eating disorders in literature.
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Fiction-- Authorship-- Psychological aspects.
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Food habits in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Women and literature-- England-- History-- 20th century.
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Women novelists, English-- 20th century-- Psychology.
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Eating disorders in literature.
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Fiction-- Authorship-- Psychological aspects.
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Food habits in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Psychology.
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Women and literature.
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Women novelists, English-- Psychology.
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Eetgewoonten.
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Eetstoornissen.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.912
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PR6045.O72Z646 1999eb
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