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

Trade Review

Between 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, 4 October 2012

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Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719097614, 978-0719097614
      ISBN10: 0719097614

      Description

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

      Trade Review

      Between 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, 4 October 2012

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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