Plain ugly : The unattractive body in Early Modern culture /

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Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent 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, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of iden...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baker, Naomi, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
European literature > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Abnormalities, Human, in art.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Ugliness in art.
Ugliness in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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