02591oam 22004694a 450 991055277250332120210915034633.00-8142-7090-5(CKB)3780000000105089(OCoLC)868220281(MdBmJHUP)muse29464(EXLCZ)99378000000010508920100514d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHistoricizing Fat in Anglo-american Cultureedited by Elena Levy-NavarroColumbus :Ohio State University Press,2010.©2010.1 online resource (xii, 254 p. :)ill. ;0-8142-1135-6 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.ObesitySocial aspectsHistoryHuman bodySocial aspectsHistoryObesity in literatureHuman body in literatureElectronic books. ObesitySocial aspectsHistory.Human bodySocial aspectsHistory.Obesity in literature.Human body in literature.820.9/3561Levy-Navarro Elena1965-1213963MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910552772503321Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture2803694UNINA