Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art - Studies in Scatology (Paperback)

Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here broadly defined as the representation of the process and product of elimination of the body's waste products. The contributors to this volume examine the many forms and functions of scatology as literary and artistic trope, and reconsider this last taboo in the context of Early Modern European expression. They address unflinchingly both the objective reality of the scatological as part and parcel of material culture - inescapably a much larger part, a much heavier parcel then than now - and the subjective experience of that reality among contemporaries.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in European Cultural Transition
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2004
Editors:	Jeff Persels • Russell Ganim
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-25792-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > History > General
LSN:	1-138-25792-3
Barcode:	9781138257924

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