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Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy -The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act
No full text«I know I’m fatter»: hunger and bodily awareness in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
No full textThis article analyses the connection between food, hunger, and child health in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 children’s novel The Secret Garden. It combines food in children’s literature theory, medical history, and body studies, and specifically it draws from Pasi Falk’s concept of corporeality, which conceives the human body as a sensual and sensorial entity (1994). Within this theoretical framework, the article reads The Secret Garden as the account of the two child protagonists’ corporealization, that is, their transition from incorporeality (which coincides with lack of hunger, disconnection from one’s own body, and illness), to corporeality (which coincides with hunger, awareness of one’s physicality, and health). Tracing the two children’s progress from illness/incorporeality to health/corporeality, the article contributes to position the novel within the Victorian and Edwardian medical discourse about child nutrition and healthy child physicality; in this analysis food emerges as a key-element to both the corporealization process in the story, as a sensorial stimulant, and to the novel’s engagement with debates about child nutrition and health in its cultural and historical context
Little Precossi, Stunted Becky: A Comparative Analysis of Child Hunger and National Body Health Discourses in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature in Italian and English
No full textThis article compares two children’s literature classics, Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis (1886) and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905), an Italian text and an American/British text respectively. In my analysis, I apply a medical historical angle to the two novels, reading their images of malnourished and stunted children in the light of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western debate on child malnutrition and national discourse
The ‘Gluttonous Child’ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysis
No full textThis article compares images of food as temptation, and hunger as test, in two samples of late-nineteenth century British and Italian children’s literature. It reads the narratives alongside coeval popular medical manuals on child health, examining recurring descriptions of children as natural gluttons in works dedicated to child nutrition. Putting the select fiction and non-fiction in dialogue with moral, scientific, and nation-building middle-class discourses circulating in both countries, the article finds that the ‘gluttonous child’ narrative was both transnational and transtextual
The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio – Exploring their Parallel Worlds. Book Review
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