Naomi Baker

Plain ugly

The unattractive body in Early Modern culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780719068744
• ISBN-10: 0719068746
• Artikelnr.: 29935725

Autorenporträt

Naomi Baker is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: ugly subjects in early
modern England 1. Theorising ugliness 2. 'Charactered in my brow':
deciphering ugly faces 3. Opening the Silenus: gendering the ugly subject
4. 'Sight of her is a vomit': abject bodies and Burton's The Anatomy of
Melancholy 5. 'To make love to a deformity': praising ugliness 6.
Sacrificing beauty: defeatured women Bibliography