The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity
E. Levy-Navarro
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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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'.
- ISBN-13
- 9780230601239
- ISBN-10
- 0230601235
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2008
- Publication date
- 2008-04-09
- Pages
- 238
- Dimensions
- 216x140x