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