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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Sexual encounters; 1 Dirty jokes: disgust, desire, and the pornographic narrative in Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller; 2 Guyon's blush: shame, disgust, and desire in The Faerie Queene, Book 2; 3 Desiring disgust in Robert Herrick's epigrams; 4 Discerning (dis)taste: delineating sexual mores in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis; Part II Cultural encounters; 5 Indecorous customs, rhetorical decorum, and the reception of Herodotean ethnography from Henri Estienne to Edmund Spenser |
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6 Food, filth, and the foreign: disgust in the seventeenth-century travelogue7 "Qualmish at the smell of leek": overcoming disgust and creating the nation-state in Henry V; Part III Textual encounters; 8 The "Fairing of good counsel": allegory, disgust, and discretion in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair; 9 Jonson's old age: the force of disgust; 10 "Rankly digested, doth those things out-spue": John Donne, bodily fluids, and the metaphysical abject; Afterword; Index |
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Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Aversion in literature.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Aversion in literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Literature and society
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Correll, Barbara
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ISBN |
9781317149620 |
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1317149629 |
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