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The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery - Hardcover - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9781585421350
- Book Title
- Fasting Girl : a True Victorian Medical Mystery
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Health & Fitness
- Topic
- Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior, Women's Health, Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias, General, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 21.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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A modern investigation of the case of a young Victorian woman who claimed to have survived for twelve years without food. In 1865, eighteen-year-old Mollie Fancher began suffering a myriad of ailments that included paralysis, spasms, blindness, and trances. Treated with electric shocks, rolled in wet sheets, and fitted with an "ice jacket," Mollie took to her bed in Brooklyn, New York, and stayed there for the rest of her life. Her story became an international sensation. Fought over by scientists and philosophers, called a "psychological marvel" and a fraud, Mollie was, for more than a decade, reportedly able to "live on air." In one six-month period alone, she apparently ate nothing more than four teaspoons of milk punch, two teaspoons of wine, one small banana, and a cracker. But what really happened in Mollie's home? How, and how much, did she eat? Was she willfully deceptive or simply hysterical, emotionally disturbed, delusional? In The Fasting Girl, Michelle Stacey searches for the true story of the Fancher case, delving into such fascinating phenomena as medieval anorexia mirabilis (fasting saints), the tragic wave of copycat Victorian fasting girls, and the dawn of the Age of Neurosis. This riveting literary history evokes such bestsellers as The Professor and the Madmanand The Murder of Helen Jewettas it explores the social and technological upheaval of a post-Darwinian, doubting era that very much mirrors our own.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1585421359
ISBN-13
9781585421350
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2215664
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fasting Girl : a True Victorian Medical Mystery
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior, Women's Health, Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias, General, Literary
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Health & Fitness
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Rc552.E18s725 2002
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Table of Content
CONTENTS PREFACE: THE HUNGER ARTIST, 1 ONE: THE ACCIDENT, 5 TWO: LA GRANDE HYSTERIE, 37 THREE: "DEAD AND YET ALIVE!", 71 FOUR: DR. HAMMOND'S WAR, 102 FIVE: THE NERVOUS AMERICAN, 132 SIX: FEEDING ON AIR, 160 SEVEN: PURE HUNGER, 187 EIGHT: FROM SOUL TO MIND, 219 NINE: "A MYSTERY TO THIS DAY", 249 TEN: HYSTERIA'S ECHO, 278 ELEVEN: THE : OF THE ENIGMA, 300 Notes, 317 Bibliography, 329 Acknowledgments, 335
Copyright Date
2002
Lccn
2001-052734
Dewey Decimal
362.27
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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