{"product_id":"historicizing-fat-in-anglo-american-culture-paperback","title":"Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElena Levy-Navarro\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistoricizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture, \u003c\/i\u003e edited by Elena Levy-Navarro, is the first collection of essays to offer a historical consideration of fat bodies in Anglophone culture. The interdisciplinary essays cover periods from the medieval to the contemporary, mapping out a new terrain for historical consideration. These essays question many of the commonplace assumptions that circulate around the category of fat: that fat exists as a natural and transhistorical category; that a premodern period existed which universally celebrated fat and knew no fatphobia; and that the thin, youthful body, as the presumptively beautiful and healthy one, should be the norm by which to judge other bodies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays begin with a consideration of the interrelationship between the rise of weight-watching and the rise of the novel. The essays that follow consider such wide-ranging figures as the fat child's body as a contested site in post-Blair U.K. and in \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies;\u003c\/i\u003e H. G. Wells; Wilkie Collins's subversively performative Fosco; Ben Jonson; the voluptuous Lillian Russell; Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis;\u003c\/i\u003e the opera diva; and the fat feminist activists of recent San Francisco. In developing their histories in a self-conscious way that addresses the pervasive fatphobia of the present-day Anglophone culture, \u003ci\u003eHistoricizing Fat\u003c\/i\u003e suggests ways in which scholarship and criticism in the humanities can address, resist, and counteract the assumptions of late modern culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena Levy-Navarro is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51789529219360,"sku":"9780814257357","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f4f9dab1e336dd1c3257a585e8f95472.webp?v=1780667138","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/historicizing-fat-in-anglo-american-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}