Peter J. Smith

Between two stools

Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Will appeal to cultural historians, and English literature scholars and students. A serious investigation into how the scatological impulse has been represented in literature, from Chaucer to Swift. It will be of interest to students of English literature and cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087943
• ISBN-10: 0719087945
• Artikelnr.: 35939415

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Turning the
other cheek: scatology and its discontents in The Miller's and The
Summoner's Tales 2. Ajax by any other name would smell as sweet:
Shakespeare, Harington and onomastic scatology 3. M.O.A.I. 'What should
that alphabetical position portend?': Shakespeare, Harington, Reynolds and
the metamorphosis of scatology 4. Cavalier scatology between two stools:
Rochester, Mennes, Pepys, Urquart and the sense of dis-ordure 5. Swift's
shit: poetic traditions and satiric effects 6. Palpable shit: topology,
religion and science