Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century
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burlesque bellies
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dysfunctional bowels
eighteenth century
England
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France
Germany
human digestion
human entrails
material culture
urban history
viscera
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- ISBN 9781526127051
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature, medical history, religious history, and material culture in England, France, and Germany.
Rebecca Anne Barr is Lecturer above the bar at the National University of Ireland, Galway
Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon is Maître de conférences at Université Paris 8
Sophie Vasset is Maître de conférences at Université Paris-Diderot
