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Drawing from medical, historical, economic, psychoanalytic, and biographical materials from the Victorian period, Houston anchors her work in the belief that if class and gender are fictional constructions, real people's lives are affected in complex and coercive ways by such constructions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProceeding chronologically, Houston traces particular patterns throughout ten of Dickens's major novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend.\u003c\/i\u003e Houston maintains that Victorian codes ofbehavior prescribed for gender and class regarding sexual and alimental appetites were so extreme and complicated that numerous consequent eating disorders and related diseases developed. Ideologies about consumption translated into medically defined consumptions, such as anorexia. 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Felski's theory aids Houston in emphasizing that Dickens not only influenced but was also greatly influenced by the Victorian dynamics of consumption. 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