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...
| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
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| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
MANCHESTER UNIV Press
2018.
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| Series: | Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5m58 |
Table of 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
- 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