Description
Book SynopsisAn 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.
Trade ReviewBetween Two Stools is a pleasure to read and makes significant contributions to the field of "shiterature". It is, in sum, good shit!
David Palumbo, The THE, 04/10/2012
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Table of ContentsList 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. A palpable shit: topology, religion and science
