The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity
Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
Authors: Levy-Navarro, E.
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- About this book
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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'.
- About the authors
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Elena Levy-Navarro is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.
- Reviews
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'The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity challenges the historically constructed discourse of fatness and obesity as moral transgression. Levy-Navarro offers fat embodiment as a revisionist-and indeed, populist-oppositional strategy against ceding the dominant will to the nationalist 'lean and mean,' with its assertion of aesthetic and moral superiority.' - Olga L. Valbuena, Associate Professor of English, Wake Forest University
'Elena Levy-Navrro's history of size complements existing histories of gender, race, age and class.' - Katharine Craik, Times Literary Supplement
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Toward a Constructionist Fat History
Pages 1-33
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A Time Before Fat? Gluttony in Piers Plowman
Pages 35-44
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Emergence of Fatness Defiant: Skelton at Court
Pages 45-65
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Lean and Mean: Shakespeare’s Criticism of Thin Privilege
Pages 67-109
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Boundless Fat in Middleton’s a Game at Chess
Pages 111-146
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity
- Book Subtitle
- Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
- Authors
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- E. Levy-Navarro
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-61043-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230610439
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-60123-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-37060-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 238
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