Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift

Author / Editor
Smith, Peter J.

Title
Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift

Published
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.

Physical Description
xii, 292 pp.

Description
In "Turning the Other Cheek: Scatology and Its Discontents in The Miller's Tale and The Summoner's Tale," pp. 12-59, Smith uses farting in MilT and SumT to explore Chaucer's complex and refined "scatological rhetoric," a trope that has been obscured by frequent bowdlerizing of these tales.

Alternative Title
"Turning the Other Cheek: Scatology and Its Discontents in The Miller's Tale and The Summoner's Tale."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale