近代における肥満の文化：シェイクスピア、ジョンソン、ミドルトン、スケルトン The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity : Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton

Levy-navarro, Elena

Palgrave Macmillan（2008/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230601239
• DDC分類 820.93561

基本説明

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'.

Full Description

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'.

Contents

Towards a Constructionist Fat History A Time before Fat?: Gluttony in Piers Plowman Emergence of Fatness Defiant: Skelton at Court Lean and Mean: Shakespeare's Criticism of Thin Privilege Boundless Fat in Middleton's A Game at Chess Weigh Me as a Friend:  Jonson's Multiple Constructions of the Fat