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846227
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Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture /\ edited by Elena Levy-Navarro.
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| Publication Statement
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Columbus :: Ohio State University Press,, ©2010.
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xii, 254 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0814211356
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: 0814292348
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: 9780814211359
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: 9780814292341
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Human body-- Social aspects-- History.
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Obesity in literature.
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Obesity-- Social aspects-- History.
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Englisch
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Fettsucht
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Human body in literature.
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Human body-- Social aspects.
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Literatur
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Obesity in literature.
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Obesity-- Social aspects.
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Übergewicht.
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USA
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/3561
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| LC Classification
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PN56.B62H57 2010
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| Added Entry
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Levy-Navarro, Elena,1965-
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