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

Levy-Navarro, E.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-04-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230601239

DOI: 10.1057/9780230610439

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 238