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Author Smith, Peter J., 1964- author

Title Between two stools : scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift / Peter J. Smith
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2012]
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Contents 1. Turning the other cheek: scatology and its discontents in The miller's tale and The summoner's tale -- 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, Urquhart and the sense of dis-ordure -- 5. Swift's shit: poetic traditions and satiric effects -- 6. A palpable shit: topology, religion and science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 29, 2015)
Subject Scatology in literature.
Feces in literature.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Literature: History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
English literature -- Middle English
Feces in literature
Scatology in literature
Literatur
Englisch
Skatologie
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013376787
ISBN 9780719098796
0719098793