The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity

Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60123-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

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'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levy-Navarro, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Elena Levy-Navarro is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.