Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class and Hunger in Dickens's Novels

by Gail Turley Houston

In this remarkable study, Gail Turley Houston examines the rich interplay of consumption as alimental process, medical entity, psychological construct, and economic practice in order to explore Charles Dickens's fictional representations of Victorian culture as he presents it in his novels. Drawing from medical, historical, economic, psychoanalytic, and biographical materials from the Victorian period, Houston anchors her work in the belief that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809319535
• ISBN13: 9780809319534
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"