Men writing eating disorders : autobiographical writing and illness experience in English and German narratives

• Main Author: Bartel, Heike, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
• Series: Emerald points.
• Subjects: English literature > Male authors > History and criticism.; German literature > Male authors > History and criticism.; Autobiography.; Eating disorders in men.; Eating disorders in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Mental illness in literature.; Literary Collections > European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781839099229
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 167 pages).

Eating disorders do not only affect women and girls; men and boys get them too but remain mostly invisible. This book gives insight into this neglected problem through a comparative and transnational analysis of autobiographical accounts written by men with experience of living with eating disorders...