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'Weighty Celebrity': Corpulency, Monstrosity, and Freakery in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England

Obesity seems to have become prevalent in English society in the eighteenth century, likely as a result of changes in the country's diet such as an increasing consumption of sugar. With the greater incidence of corpulence in the population came more fat individuals on England's lucrative show circui...

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Auteur principal: Whitney Dirks
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Ohio State University Libraries 2019-08-01
Collection:Disability Studies Quarterly
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Accès en ligne:http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/6602
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