Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture /: the unattractive body in early modern culture. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Naomi Baker.
• Authors: Baker, Naomi, 1974-
• Contents: AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsIntroduction: ugly subjects in early modern England1. Theorising ugliness2. ‘Charactered in my brow’: deciphering ugly faces3. Opening the Silenus: gendering the ugly subject4. ‘Sight of her is a vomit’: abject bodies and Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy 5. ‘To make love to a deformity’: praising ugliness6. Sacrificing beauty: defeatured womenBibliography
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 820.9353; Ugliness in literature; Ugliness in art; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in art; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; European literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526129680
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• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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