E-book
Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture
Record details
- ISBN: 9780814211359
- ISBN: 0814211356
- ISBN: 9780814292341
- ISBN: 9780814270905
- ISBN: 0814292348
- ISBN: 0814270905
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages :) : illustrations
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Computer data. - Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, �2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:february.14 CatMonthString:september.21 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |
