Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture / edited by Elena Levy-Navarro

• Pubblicazione: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 254 p. :) : ill.
• Disciplina: 820.9/3561
• Soggetto topico: Obesity - Social aspects - History; Human body - Social aspects - History; Obesity in literature; Human body in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Levy-NavarroElena <1965->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture
• ISBN: 0-8142-7090-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910552772503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II