Consuming Narratives
Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters
'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.
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'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.
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'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.
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Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters teach in the Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
A collection of 17 essays by renowned scholars exploring representations of excessive appetites in Middle Age English texts and assessing the significance of these texts in the understanding of attitudes towards gender and race, and political and national issues of the time. 6 black-and-white illustrations.
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