Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art ― Studies in Scatology

Thirteen somber essays reflect on the last scholarly taboo, the scatological, in Early Modern European artistic and literary expression. More than a naughty novelty, the collection, its editors note, addresses "unflinchingly both the objective reality of the scatological as part and parcel of material culture inescapably a much larger part, a much heavier parcel then than now and the subjective experience of that reality among contemporaries." The contributors are academics in the US, Canada, and UK. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jeff Persels is an Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of South Carolina, USA and Russell Ganim is Department Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.