The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity

出版者:AIAA

作者:Elena Levy-Navarro

页数:252

出版时间:2008-2-1

价格:GBP 71.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780230601239

This book offers the first sustained examination of fat in the early modern period, using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton to consider alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction of the modern pathologized category of "obesity."