Consuming narratives : gender and monstrous appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters

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Consuming narratives : gender and monstrous appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters

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gender and monstrous appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters

Instantiates

• Consuming narratives : gender and monstrous appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Publication

• Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2002

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-243) and index

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

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

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49640900

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22 cm

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xii, 257 pages

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9780708317433

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, facsimiles

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.b48484301