Smith Between two stools

Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9879-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Peter J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Peter J. Smith is Reader in Renaissance Literature, Nottingham Trent University