Author	Richards, Anna
Title	The wasting heroine in German fiction by women 1770-1914 [electronic resource] / Anna Richards
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267545.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (224 p.)

In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases

1. German fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
2. German fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
3. German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
4. Women in literature
5. Diseases in literature