Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century
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Manchester University Press · Ebook · June 26, 2020
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Essays trace how digestion shaped eighteenth-century emotions and ideas of self.
- Genres
- 18th-Century History, 18th Century Literature, Medical History
- Published
- Manchester University Press, June 26, 2020
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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.
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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.
Viscera and Self
Essays trace how digestion shaped eighteenth-century emotions and ideas of self.
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- Bowels as counterpoints to politeness
- Digestive processes in eighteenth-century thought
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- Urban history
- Visual studies
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| Medical History | 69% |
|---|---|
| 18th-Century History | 64% |
| 18th Century Literature | 49% |
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Publisher categories
- Romanticism Art History
- French History
- British History
- Medical History
- Authors
- Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Sophie Vasset
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- June 26, 2020
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Romanticism Art History