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...

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Main Author: Levy-Navarro, Elena 1965- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2008
In:Year: 2008
Reviews:[Rezension von: Levy-Navarro, Elena, The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton] (2009) (McIntyre, Matthew)
Edition:1. publ.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B English language / Literature / Body (Motif) / Obesity (Motif) / History 1400-1630
Further subjects:B Aesthetics, Modern 16th century
B Aesthetics, Modern 17th century
B Body image in literature
B Body, Human, in literature
B Human body in literature
B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism
B Aesthetics, Modern 17th century
B Aesthetics, Modern 16th century
B Obesity in literature
B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism
B Authors, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Aesthetics
B Authors, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Aesthetics
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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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ISBN:0230601235