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Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture
- Title
- Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture / Naomi Baker.
- Author
- Baker, Naomi, 1974-
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 11-895 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 260 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: ugly subjects in early modern England -- Theorising ugliness -- 'Charactered in my brow': deciphering ugly faces -- Opening the Silenus: gendering the ugly subject -- 'Sight of her is a vomit': abject bodies and Burton's The anatomy of melancholy -- 'To make love to a deformity': praising ugliness -- Sacrificing beauty: defeatured women.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-895
- ISBN
- 9780719068744 (hbk.)
- 0719068746 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 609541114
- Author
- Baker, Naomi, 1974-
- Title
- Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture / Naomi Baker.
- Imprint
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-895