Introduction / Natalie K. Eschenbaum and Barbara Correll
Part 1. Sexual encounters
Dirty jokes: disgust, desire, and the pornographic narrative in Thomas Nashe's The unfortunate traveller / Emily King
Guyon's Blush: shame, disgust, and desire in The Faerie Queene, book 2 / Barbara Correll
Desiring disgust in Robert Herrick's Epigrams / Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Discerning (Dis)taste: delineating sexual mores in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis / Marcela Kostihová
Part 2. Cultural encounters
Indecorous customs, rhetorical decorum, and the reception of Herodotean ethnography from Henri Estienne to Edmund Spenser / Galena Hashhozheva
Food, filth, and the foreign: disgust in the seventeenth-century travelogue / Gitanjali Shahani
"Qualmish at the smell of leek": overcoming disgust and creating the nation-state in Henry V / Colleen E. Kennedy
Part 3. Textual encounters
"The fairing of good counsel": allegory, disgust, and discretion in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair / Ineke Murakami
Jonson's old age: the force of disgust / Laura Kolb
"Rankly digested, doth those things out-spue": John Donne, bodily fluids, and the metaphysical abject / Dan Mills
End matter
Afterword / Georgia E. Brown.