Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceLiz Herbert McAvoy, Teresa Walters 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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... argues that they should eat one of the men instead ' And spare the woman to beget more food on ' ( 3. 1. 156 ) ; rape would , it is implied , produce a worthwhile surplus a supply of babies for future feasts . - - As commodity , once ...
... argues , created something of an aesthetic dilemma for George Robert Lewis in his attempt to articulate general rules for architectural aesthetics and design . Prominent on the church was the ' figure of a Sheela - na - Gig ' or a woman ...
... argues that the gloss is anachronistic because , despite its alignment of demonic activity with same - sex intercourse and bestiality , by the later Middle Ages demons were losing their bodies : as corporeality becomes newly valued in ...
Contents
The Monstrosity of the Moral Pig and Other Unnatural | 15 |
Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gowers | 28 |
Consuming the Body of the Working Man in the Later | 42 |
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