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The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton

The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton

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Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 1349370606
ISBN13: 9781349370603
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Apr 9 2008
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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