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Tables of Contents for Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
vii
A Graphic Introduction to the Civilized Self
3
14
Part I: Manners and the English-Canadian Novel
17
24
1 `It Never Was Mine': Bodily Disgust in Personal and Social Histories
17
8
2 Country and Town: `The Size of Sheep's Dung' and Other Metaphors
25
5
3 Doubling Back: The Rhetorical Recovery of the Body
30
4
4 Extreme Scepticism: Parodies of the Civilized Self
34
7
Part II: The Social Body: Scatology and Ideological Hierarchy in the English-Canadian Novel
41
102
5 Immigrants, Foul Ghettos, and Social Climbers: Marking Fictional Class Structures
41
12
6 `This Is the British Fucking Empire': Race
53
18
7 Allegories and Sites of Power: Politics and Economics
71
14
8 Hygiene Guidelines for Virtual Bodies: Science and Technology
85
14
9 Polluted Women
99
16
10 `The Hind Parts of God': Materialist Epistemologies and the Mimesis of Religion
115
28
Part III: Two Studies in Scatology and Literary Genre
143
38
Introduction
143
4
11 `Wen I de Small Man Sometime I Used to Eat Goat Shit': The Base and Written Self in Fictional Autobiography
147
15
12 Post-Modern Decomposition: Guaranteeing the World of an Indeterminate Text
162
19
Epilogue: New Detours to the Symbolic
181
8
NOTES
189
36
WORKS CITED
225
20
INDEX
245