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

Trollope and the antibourgeois elite -- Competitive elites in Wilkie Collins : cultural intellectuals and their professional others -- Lying and impulsiveness i

Studies sexual expression in literature of high quality. Analyzes more than a dozen novels and poems that, in a variety of ways, treat topics such as intercours