The culture of obesity in early and late modernity: body image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
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 mul...
Summary: | 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 |
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Item Description: | Formerly CIP |
ISBN: | 0230601235 |