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Cover image for book The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity

The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity

Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
By:E. Levy-Navarro
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230601239
eText ISBN:9780230610439
Edition:0
Copyright:2008
Format:Page Fidelity

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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'.