E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, eBook
Levy-Navarro The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61043-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-0-230-61043-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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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Weitere Infos & Material
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