Consuming Narratives
Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Distributed for University of Wales Press
- Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword and Acknowledgements
List of Editors and Contributors
1. Introduction
Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters
I Sexual / Textual Consumption
2. The Monstrosity of the Moral Pig and Other Unnatural Ruminations
Nicholas Watson
3. Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
Diane Watt
4. Consuming the Body of the Working Man in the Later Middle Ages
Isabel Davies
5. Reproductive Rites: Anne Askew and the Female Body as Witness in the Acts and Monuments
Kimberly Anne Coles
6. ‘Such Stowage as These Trinkets’: Trading and Tasting Women in Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea Voyage (1622)
Teresa Walters
7. ‘Antipodean Tricks’: Travel, Gender and Monstrousness in Richard Brome’s The Antipodes
Claire Jowitt
II Monstrous Bodies
8. Monstrosity and the Mercurial Female Imagination
Margo Hendricks
9. Bloodsuckers: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Medieval Science and Fiction
Bettina Bildhauer
10. Sheela’s Voracity and Victorian Veracity
Emma L. E. Rees
11. ‘Ant nes he him seolf reclus i maries wombe?’: Julian of Norwich, the Anchorhold, and the Redemption of the Monstrous Female Body
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy
12. Fountains and Strange Women in the Bower of Bliss: Eastern Contexts for Acrasia and her Community
Marion D. Hollings
13. Monstrous Tyrannical Appetites: ‘& what wonderfull monsters have there now lately ben borne in Englande’
Margaret Healy
III Consuming Genders, Races, Nations
14. Reading Between and Beyond the Lines
Andrew Hadfield
15. The Devil in Disguise: Perverse Female Origins of the Nation
Ruth Evans
16. Monstrous (M)othering: The Representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale
Sue Niebrzydowski
17. An Ethiopian History: Reading Race and Skin Colour in Early Modern Versions of Heliodorus’ Aithiopika
Sujata Iyengar
18. Monstrous Generation: Witchcraft and Narrative in Othello
Kirstie Gulick Rosenfield
Select Bibliography
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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