Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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Liz Herbert McAvoy, Teresa Walters
University of Wales Press, 2002 - 257 Seiten

While moralists may stress the importance of the proper management of appetite, medieval and early modern narratives are full of images of monstrous and deformed appetites running out of control. Consuming Narratives examines the significance of these concepts, metaphors and narratives of appetite for understanding gender, politics, race and nation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The essays in this wide-ranging collection consider appetite in relation to sexual and textual consumption, monstrous bodies, and genders, races and nations. Each section is introduced by a leading academic in the field, while individual papers deal with a variety of texts, from the Revelations of Divine Love to Massinger's The Sea Voyage, and cover topics ranging from trade and colonialism to vampires, witchcraft and the sheela-na-gig figure.

Consuming Narratives analyses representations of monstrous appetites, highlights the role of consumption within narrative practices and considers the ways in which appetites and ideas about them contributed to the production of textual, human and national bodies. It will be an essential book for all those interested in the intersections of gender, politics and narrative in the medieval and early modern periods.

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SexualTextual Consumption
8
The Monstrosity of the Moral Pig and Other Unnatural
15
Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gowers
28
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (2002)

Liz Herbert McAvoy is Lecturer in Gender in English Studies at the University of Wales Swansea. She has published widely on medieval women's writing, the medieval mystical experience and anchoritism, including a monograph on Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. She is currently writing a book on constructions of gender in anchoritic guidance texts. Mari Hughes-Edwards is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford. She has recently been awarded a Ph.D. on contemplative models in high and late medieval anchoritic guidance texts which she is currently revising for publication. Other research interests include the constructions of gender and space in contemporary women's poetry, on which she has also published a number of articles.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelConsuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
University of Wales - Pocket Guide Series
HerausgeberLiz Herbert McAvoy, Teresa Walters
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagUniversity of Wales Press, 2002
Original vonUniversity of Michigan
Digitalisiert29. Febr. 2008
ISBN070831743X, 9780708317433
Länge257 Seiten
  
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