1st Edition

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Edited By Natalie K. Eschenbaum, Barbara Correll Copyright 2016
218 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights, and disgusts? This collection of essays looks at the treatment of disgust in texts by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, and others to... Read more
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Biography

Natalie K. Eschenbaum is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA. Barbara Correll is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, USA.