Peter J. Smith

Between two stools

Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097614
• ISBN-10: 0719097614
• Artikelnr.: 42775369

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Smith is Professor of Political Science at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada

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