How Long to Read Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

How Long Does it Take to Read Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body by Anna Krugovoy Silver

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through...

How long is Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body?

Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body by Anna Krugovoy Silver is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body aloud.

What Reading Level is Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body?

Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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