""Clearly Disorderly Eaters is a book whose time has come. Clinicians and popularizers have been busy; it is time for literary scholars to have their day. How is eating functional in literature? Perhaps especially when it is dysfunctional?"" --- Richard B. Vowles, University of Wisconsin ""Disorderly Eaters is an excellent collection of fifteen essays on various aspects of eating disorders as these are manifest in literary works from a variety of lands and centuries. Because the information is so clearly and incisively expressed, much light is shed on contemporary eating disorders which are so prevalent in affluent societies."" --- Bettina Knapp, Hunter College This book explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to Toni Morrison, in American, British, and European texts. The underlying,...

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