SOURCE: Edwards, Simon. “Anorexia Nervosa versus the Fleshpots of London: Rose and Nancy in Oliver Twist.” In Dickens Studies Annual 19 (1990): 49-64.
In the following essay, Edwards examines the interaction of food and sexuality in the formation of identity in Oliver Twist.
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