Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century /

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 ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vasset, Sophie (Editor ), Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie (Editor ), Barr, Rebecca Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
Colección:Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Self.
Enlightenment.
Human body (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, André 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 / Amelie Junqua
  • 'Words have no smell': faecal references in eighteenth century French theâtre de societe / 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'Homere travesti and Le Telemaque travesti / Clemence Aznavour
  • Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb / Rebecca Anne Barr
  • Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth's bodies / Frederic Ogee
  • 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 Gelis.

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