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Introduction: ugly subjects in early modern England
Theorising ugliness
'Charactered in my brow': deciphering ugly faces
Opening the Silenus: gendering the ugly subject
'Sight of her is a vomit': abject bodies and Burton's The anatomy of melancholy
'To make love to a deformity': praising ugliness
Sacrificing beauty: defeatured women.
Theorising ugliness
'Charactered in my brow': deciphering ugly faces
Opening the Silenus: gendering the ugly subject
'Sight of her is a vomit': abject bodies and Burton's The anatomy of melancholy
'To make love to a deformity': praising ugliness
Sacrificing beauty: defeatured women.