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The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity : Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton /

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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 &...

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Main Author: Levy-Navarro, Elena (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Anthropology.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Poetry and Poetics.
British literature.
Ethnology.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature.
Poetry.
Sex (Psychology)
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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'.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 pages)
ISBN:9780230610439
DOI:10.1057/9780230610439