This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.

Autorentext
Susan Signe Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.

Inhalt
The Medieval Body: Disciplining Material and Symbolic Excrement The Rhizomatic Body Moral Filth and The Sinning Body: Hell, Purgatory, and Resurrection Gendered Filth Chaucerian Fecopoetics Urban Excrement in The Canterbury Tales Sacred Filth: Relics, Ritual, and Remembering in The Prioress's Tale The Excremental Human God and Redemptive Filth: The Pardoner's Tale Rhizomatic Pilgrimage and Alchemical Poetry Chaucerian Fecology and Wasteways: The Nun's Priest's Tale Looking Behind, Looking Ahead Waste Studies: A Brief Introduction Bottoms Up! A Manifesto for Waste Studies