Table of Contents:
  • The riddle of transubstantiation / Douglas Burnham
  • Real accidents, surfaces and digestions : Descartes and the 'very easily explained' transubstantiation / Tomaso Cavallo
  • The transubstantial bard : Shakespeare and Catholicism / Michael Davies
  • Transubstantiating the performance : towards a mimetic narrative in Hamlet's Hecuba scene / Silvia Bigliazzi
  • Transubstantiating love : John Donne and cultural criticism / Andy Mousley
  • A 'deformed' Christianity: ethical transubstantiation in English Reformation plays / Nicoletta Caputo
  • From substantial body into evanescent ghost : the world of James Macpherson's ossianic 'fragments' / Laura Giovannelli
  • Shakespeare as Paraclitus : transubstantiation in Joyce and T.S. Eliot / Francesco Gozzi
  • Food for the soul : reading Mrs Ramsay's boeuf en daube / Catherine Burgass
  • Reformations : Ford Madox Ford and transubstantiation / Martin Stannard
  • Lost in translation : gender and the figure of the translator in contemporary queer fiction / Emma Parker
  • Conrad and Scola : transposing the Heart of darkness into film / Mario Curreli
  • RSC 1999 : enter guilt on the stage of conscience : the family reunion by T.S. Eliot / Carla Dente
  • Embodying the past : vocal transubstantiation in Erri de Luca's Tu, mio / Marina Spunta
  • Sculptural transubstantiations : reflections upon wax, flesh and stone, blood, bread and bone / Alison Yarrington.