Plain ugly : the unattractive body in Early Modern culture /
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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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2010. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
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.
