Beschreibung:
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'.
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