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Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century

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[Place of publication not identified] : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2018.
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In English.
Contents
Front matter; Contents; List of plates; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century; PART I Urban congestion and human digestion; The belly and the viscera of the capital city; The intestinal labours of Paris; Digesting in the long eighteenth century; The soul in the entrails: the experience of the sick in the eighteenth century; PART II Excremental operations; Sawney's seat: the social imaginary of the London bog-house c.1660-c.1800; Eighteenth-century paper: the readers' digest, 'Words have no smell': faecal references in eighteenth-century French thé âtre de sociétéThe legibility of the bowels: Lichtenberg's excretory vision of Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress; PART III Burlesque bellies; Parodies of pompous knowledge: treatises on farting; Potbelly, paunch and innards: variations on the abdomen in Marivaux's L'Homère travesti and Le Télémaque travesti; Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb; Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth's bodies; PART IV Visualising the viscera, and Iconography of the belly: eighteenth-century satirical printsVisceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France; The saints of the entrails and the bowels of the earth; Select bibliography; Index
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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9781526127068 (electronic bk.)
1526127067 (electronic bk.)
9781526127075 (ePUB eBook)
1526127075 (ePUB eBook)
1526127059
9781526127051
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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