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Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century [electronic resource] / edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon and Sophie Vasset

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Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
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xvii, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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Barr, Rebecca Anne, Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie, and Vasset, Sophie
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Contents
Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century / Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Sophie Vasset -- The belly and the viscera of the capital city / Gilles Thomas -- The intestinal labours of Paris / Sabine Barles, André́ Guillerme -- Digesting in the long eighteenth century / Ian Mille -- The soul in the entrails: the experience of the sick in the eighteenth century / Micheline Louis-Courvoisier -- Sawney's seat: the social imaginary of the London bog-house c.1660-c.1800 / Mark Jenner -- Eighteenth-century paper: the readers' digest / Amélie Junqua -- 'Words have no smell': faecal references in eighteenth century French théâtre de société / Jennifer Ruimi -- The legibility of the bowels: Lichtenberg's excretory vision of Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress / Anthony Mahler -- Parodies of pompous knowledge: treatises on farting / Guilhem Armand -- Potbelly, paunch and innards: variations on the abdomen in Marivaux's L'Homère travesti and Le Télémaque travesti / Clémence Aznavour -- Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb / Rebecca Anne Barr -- Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth's bodies / Frédéric Ogée -- Iconography of the belly: eighteenth-century satirical prints / Barbara Stentz -- Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France / Dorothy Johnson --The saints of the entrails and the bowels of the earth / Jacques Gélis.
Summary
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.
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9781526127051 (hardback)
1526127059 (hardback)
9781526127075 (ePub ebook)
9781526127068 (PDF ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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