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The culture of obesity in early and late modernitybody image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The culture of obesity in early and late modernityElena Levy-Navarro.
Reminder of title:	body image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton /
Author:	Levy-Navarro, Elena,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	xi, 238 p.
Subject:	English literatureHistory and criticism.Early modern, 1500-1700
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230610439

The culture of obesity in early and late modernitybody image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton /
Levy-Navarro, Elena,1965-

The culture of obesity in early and late modernitybody image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton /[electronic resource] :Elena Levy-Navarro. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xi, 238 p.

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

Towards a constructionist fat history -- A time before fat? gluttonyin Piers Plowman -- Emergence of fatness defiant : Skelton at court --Lean and mean : Shakespeare's criticism of thin privilege -- Boundlessfat in Middleton's A game at chess -- Weigh me as a friend : Jonson's multiple constructions of the fat body.

The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. As Levy-Navarro notes, bodily perceptions have evolved that value the thin body as they mark and stigmatize the fat one. Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton, this book considers alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction ofthe modern pathologized category of "obesity". Levy-Navarro argues that Shakespeare, Jonson, and Skelton understood that a thin aesthetic consolidates the power of the elite and chose to align themselves with their fat, lowly, and revolting characters--an alliance that offers a model of defiance with continued relevance.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230610439

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230610439doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

175247
English literature
--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR428.B63 / L48 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3561

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