| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages :) : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Changing conceptions of the fat body in Western history / Elena Levy-Navarro -- Fat is a fictional issue : the novel and the rise of weight-watching / Pat Rogers -- "Kill the pig!" : Lord of the flies, "Piggy," and anti-fat discourse / Zeynep Z. Atayurt -- "The fattest clubman in London" : H.G. Wells's "The truth about Pyecraft" and the culture of reducing in England at the turn of the twentieth century / Nikole King -- Fosco's fat drag : performing the Victorian fat man in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / Joyce L. Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Obesity -- Social aspects -- History
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Human body -- Social aspects -- History
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Obesity in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Human body in literature.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Obesity in literature.
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Obesity -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levy-Navarro, Elena, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2010018910 |
| ISBN |
0814270905 |
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0814292348 |
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9780814292341 |
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9780814270905 |
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