Men writing eating disorders : autobiographical writing and illness experience in English and German narratives

题名:

ISBN:

9781839099229

个人著者:

Bartel, Heike, author.

PRODUCTION_INFO:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.

物理描述:

1 online resource (xvi, 167 pages).

系列:

Emerald points

Emerald points.

一般注释:

Includes index.

内容:

Prelims -- Introduction -- 1: Eating disorders and men -- 2: Constructing eating disorders -- 3: Written on the body -- 4: Autobiographical writing -- 5: Writing for healthcare -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

摘要:

Eating disorders do not only affect women and girls; men and boys get them too but remain mostly invisible. This book gives insight into this neglected problem through a comparative and transnational analysis of autobiographical accounts written by men with experience of living with eating disorders.

主题词汇:

English literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.

German literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Eating disorders in men.

Eating disorders in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Mental illness in literature.

Literary Collections -- European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.

附加团体著者:

Emerald Social Sciences