Tears Liquids And Porous Bodies In Literature Across The Ages

Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Charlotte Bront John Keats James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks how bodily liquidity porosity and petrification recur as a pattern and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in literature.Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between porosity and its opposite closure containment and stoniness and explores literary history as a meandering narra