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Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations        
Edited by Amy Shaw and Lynn Kennedy

February 28, 2025
3:00 PM
M1090
Zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/97492786084

Refreshments provided

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse. Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century animates discussion and analyses of fatness, highlighting how corporeal expectations fit into larger social systems and showing how interpretations have shifted over time. This collection examines a host of primary sources – including literature, art, medical treatises, journalism, political cartoons, soldiers’ letters home, and popular fiction – to identify trends in how fat was perceived and promoted in the English-speaking world over the long nineteenth century.

 Copies will be sold at the event by the U of L Bookstore. 
Thank you for support from the University of Lethbridge VP Research Office.  

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