The Wonder

<p>This week we're going back to 1860s Ireland with The Wonder! Join us as we learn about anorexia mirabilis, turf, Victorian hair tokens, and more! *Content Warning: This episode features discussion of eating disorders and sexual abuse.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, University of California Press, 1988<br /> Gail Sher, "The Fasting Spirit," The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 8, 2 (1988)<br /> Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary, Penguin Books, 2001<br /> Interview with Emma Donoghue, NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494360267/emma-donoghues-new-novel-the-wonder?t=1658214518736<br /> Interview with Sebastian Lelio and Florence Pugh, Deadline, available at https://deadline.com/2022/11/the-wonder-florence-pugh-sebastian-lelio-interview-contenders-los-angeles-1235177120/<br /> "Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder<br /> Lin Elinor Pettersson<br /> Nordic Irish Studies<br /> Vol. 16 (2017), pp. 1-20 (20 pages)<br /> https://www.jstor.org/stable/26486974"</p> <p>Liam Kennedy, ""The People's Fuel": Turf in Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change, edited by Richard W. Unger, 25-30  (2013). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Winiwarter/publication/260497629_The_View_from_Below_On_Energy_in_Soils_and_Food/links/02e7e5317108b2128c000000/The-View-from-Below-On-Energy-in-Soils-and-Food.pdf#page=27 <br /> Emmet Larkin, "Economic Growth, Capital Investment, and the Roman Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Ireland," The American Historical Review, 72, no.3 (1967): 852-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1846659 <br /> Muiris O'Sullivan and Liam Downey, "Turf-Harvesting," Archaeology Ireland 30, no.1 (2016): 30-33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43745953 <br /> Caitriona Clear, Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press, 2007)