Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture /: the unattractive body in early modern culture. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Naomi Baker.
• Authors: Baker, Naomi, 1974-
• Contents: 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; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• 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: 9781526162700
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