The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment

By Maud Ellmann

Book Overview

Examines the vampirical feeding of words on flesh, revealing strange affinities between the labour of starvation and the birth of letters, diaries, poems and books.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067442705X
• ISBN13: 9780674427051
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

This is a truly fabulous piece of criticism.

Ellmann's work is a must-read for anyone interested in anorexia in literature. As theory, it is remarkably readable, interesting, and compelling. Her reading of Richardson's Clarissa actually makes one want to read the longest novel in the English language, and her work on hunger strikers from various movements (focusing on Irish nationalists and suffragettes) is really fascinating. This book has changed the way I think about a lot of things.