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Author:

Levy-Navarro, Elena, 1965-

Title:

The culture of obesity in early and late modernity : body image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton / Elena Levy-Navarro.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 238 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Body, Human, in literature.
Obesity in literature.
Body image in literature.
Authors, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, Modern--16th century
Aesthetics, Modern--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-225) and index.

Contents:

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 body.

ISBN:

9780230601239
0230601235

OCLC:

(OCoLC)145379662

LCCN:

2007024338

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)