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Consuming narratives : gender and monstrous appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters.
- Title
- Consuming narratives : gender and monstrous appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters.
- Publication
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2002.
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- Description
- xii, 257 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.
- Alternative Title
- Gender and monstrous appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Subject
- To 1700
- Geschichte 1300-1700
- Human body in literature
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > To 1500
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Appetite in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Monsters in literature
- Women in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-243) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The monstrosity of the moral pig and other unnatural ruminations / Nicholas Watson -- Consuming passions in Book VIII of John Gower's Confessio amantis / Diane Watt -- Consuming the body of the working man in the later Middle Ages / Isabel Davis -- Reproduction rites: Anne Askew and the female body as witness in the Acts and monuments / Kimberly Anne Coles -- 'Such stowage as these trinkets': trading and tasting women in Fletcher and Massinger's The sea voyage (1622) / Teresa Walters -- 'Antipodean tricks": travel, gender, and monstrousness in Richard Brome's The antipodes / Claire Jowitt -- Monstrosity and the mercurial female imagination / Margo Hendricks -- Bloodsuckers: the construction of female sexuality in medieval science and fiction / Bettina Bildhauer -- Sheela's voracity and Victorian veracity / Emma L.E. Rees -- "Ant nes he him seolf recluse I maries wombe?': Julian of Norwich, the Anchorhold, and the redemption of the monstrous female body / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Fountains and strange women in the bower of bliss: eastern contexts for Acrasia and her community / Marion D. Hollings -- Monstrous tyrannical appetites: ' & what wonderfull monsters have there now lately ben borne in Englande' / Margaret Healy -- Reading between and beyond the lines / Andrew Hadfield -- The devil in disguise: perverse female origins of the nation / Ruth Evans -- Monstrous (m)othering: the representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer's Man of law's tale / Sue Niebrzydowski -- An Ethiopian history: reading race and skin colour in early modern versions of Heliodorus' Aithiopika / Sujata Iyengar -- Monstrous generation: witchcraft and generation in Othello / Kirstie Gulick Rosenfield.
- ISBN
- 070831743X
- 0708317421 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003464399
- OCLC
- 49640900
- SCSB-12144277
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library