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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barr, Rebecca Anne, editor.

Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie, editor.

Vasset, Sophie, editor.

Series:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body (Philosophy).

Enlightenment.

Self.

Physical Description:

xvii, 349 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526127059

9781526127051

OCLC:

1014088546