Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture
By: edited by Elena Levy-Navarro
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780814211359; 9780814292341
Subjects: Obesity in literature; Human body in literature; Human body; Obesity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing conceptions of the fat body in Western history / Elena Levy-Navarro; title: Fat is a fictional issue : the novel and the rise of weight-watching / Pat Rogers; title: "Kill the pig!" : Lord of the flies, "Piggy," and anti-fat discourse / Zeynep Z. Atayurt; title: "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; title: Fosco's fat drag : performing the Victorian fat man in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / Joyce L. Huff; title: "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley; title: American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner; title: Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans; title: Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro; title: "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino; title: Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.