The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity

Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2008
ISBN13: 9780230601239
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2008 9780230601239
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This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period.  Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton, this book considers alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction of the modern pathologized category of 'obesity'.

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ISBN13:9780230601239
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Towards a Constructionist Fat History A Time before Fat?: Gluttony in Piers Plowman Emergence of Fatness Defiant: Skelton at Court Lean and Mean: Shakespeare's Criticism of Thin Privilege Boundless Fat in Middleton's A Game at Chess Weigh Me as a Friend:  Jonson's Multiple Constructions of the Fat

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        The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity