Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art
Subtitle: Studies in Scatology (Studies in European Cultural Transition)
Contributors: Jeff Persels (Editor); Russell Ganim (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780754641162
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; General; Scatology in art; Scatology in literature
First sentence: Literature, from Antiquity to some time in the eighteenth century, was frequently characterized by a simple juxtaposition of two Latin adjectives: utile ('useful or profitable') and dulce ('sweet or pleasant').