The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity

1. Toward a Constructionist Fat History
Elena Levy-Navarro

2. A Time Before Fat? Gluttony in Piers Plowman
Elena Levy-Navarro

3. Emergence of Fatness Defiant: Skelton at Court
Elena Levy-Navarro

4. Lean and Mean: Shakespeare’s Criticism of Thin Privilege
Elena Levy-Navarro

5. Boundless Fat in Middleton’s a Game at Chess
Elena Levy-Navarro

6. Weigh Me as a Friend: Jonson’s Multiple Constructions of the Fat Body
Elena Levy-Navarro

Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature