{"product_id":"9780814211359","title":"Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eHistoricizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture, \u003c\/i\u003eedited 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 \u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003ethe 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\u003esuggests ways in which scholarship and criticism in the humanities can address, resist, and counteract the assumptions of late modern culture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016724267248,"sku":"9780814211359","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814211359_p0.jpg?v=1763743976","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814211359","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}