Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century: .: 5 (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies) - Softcover

9781526147967: Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century: .: 5 (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies)

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ISBN 10: 1526147963 ISBN 13: 9781526147967

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2020

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.

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Rebecca Anne Barr is Lecturer above the bar at the National University of Ireland, Galway

Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon is Ma�tre de conf�rences at Universit� Paris 8

Sophie Vasset is Ma�tre de conf�rences at Universit� Paris-Diderot

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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 visions 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.

The book is aimed at postgraduate students, researchers and specialists working on eighteenth-century studies conceived broadly, as well as those working on the history of science and medicine, cultural and literary history.

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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 visions 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. The book is aimed at postgraduate students, researchers and specialists working on eighteenth-century studies conceived broadly, as well as those working on the history of science and medicine, cultural and literary history.

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