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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.
Teresa Walters, formerly a teacher in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, is currently working for the Dyfi Eco-Valley Partnership. Liz Herbert McAvoy teaches in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has written widely on female spirituality and mysticism, especially in relation to Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
List of IllustrationsForeword and AcknowledgementsList of Editors and Contributors1. Introduction Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa WaltersI Sexual / Textual Consumption2. The Monstrosity of the Moral Pig and Other Unnatural Ruminations Nicholas Watson3. Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis Diane Watt4. Consuming the Body of the Working Man in the Later Middle Ages Isabel Davies5. Reproductive Rites: Anne Askew and the Female Body as Witness in the Acts and Monuments Kimberly Anne Coles6. ‘Such Stowage as These Trinkets’: Trading and Tasting Women in Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea Voyage (1622) Teresa Walters7. ‘Antipodean Tricks’: Travel, Gender and Monstrousness in Richard Brome’s The Antipodes Claire JowittII Monstrous Bodies8. Monstrosity and the Mercurial Female Imagination Margo Hendricks9. Bloodsuckers: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Medieval Science and Fiction Bettina Bildhauer10. Sheela’s Voracity and Victorian Veracity Emma L. E. Rees11. ‘Ant nes he him seolf reclus i maries wombe?’: Julian of Norwich, the Anchorhold, and the Redemption of the Monstrous Female Body Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy12. Fountains and Strange Women in the Bower of Bliss: Eastern Contexts for Acrasia and her Community Marion D. Hollings13. Monstrous Tyrannical Appetites: ‘& what wonderfull monsters have there now lately ben borne in Englande’ Margaret HealyIII Consuming Genders, Races, Nations14. Reading Between and Beyond the Lines Andrew Hadfield15. The Devil in Disguise: Perverse Female Origins of the Nation Ruth Evans16. Monstrous (M)othering: The Representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale Sue Niebrzydowski17. An Ethiopian History: Reading Race and Skin Colour in Early Modern Versions of Heliodorus’ Aithiopika Sujata Iyengar18. Monstrous Generation: Witchcraft and Narrative in Othello Kirstie Gulick RosenfieldSelect BibliographyIndex
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