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Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture /

0814211356

0814292348

9780814211359

9780814292341

Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture /

[Book]

edited by Elena Levy-Navarro.

Columbus :

Ohio State University Press,

©2010.

xii, 254 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Human body in literature.

Human body-- Social aspects-- History.

Obesity in literature.

Obesity-- Social aspects-- History.

Englisch

Fettsucht

Human body in literature.

Human body-- Social aspects.

Literatur

Obesity in literature.

Obesity-- Social aspects.

Übergewicht.

USA

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