Naomi Baker
Plain ugly
- ISBN 13:
- 9780719068751
- author:
- Naomi Baker
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 1.8 x 15.5 cm
- Genre:
- Poetry, Drama & Criticism, History & Criticism,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Naomi Baker's Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture offers a fascinating exploration of how ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in early modern literary and visual texts. Focusing closely on English literary culture, the book also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a range of primary sources.
This accessible and absorbing account examines the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the most unusual literary and visual material from early modern culture. It will be of interest to scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women's studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines.
Available in paperback for the first time, Plain Ugly provides illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, shedding new light on the ways in which ugliness was constructed and represented in early modern society.
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