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The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton E. Levy-Navarro
The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
E. Levy-Navarro
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'.
240 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 9, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230601239 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 238 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 17 mm · 381 g |
| Language | English |