Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barr, Rebecca Anne; Vasset, Sophie; Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526127075
• Artikelnr.: 55005747

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Anne Barr is Lecturer above the bar at the National University of Ireland, Galway Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon is Maître de conférences at Université Paris 8 Sophie Vasset is Maître de conférences at Université Paris-Diderot

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century
Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman
Lafon, Sophie Vasset Part I: Urban congestion and human digestion 1. The belly and the viscera of the capital city
Gilles Thomas 2. The intestinal labours of Paris
Sabine Barles and André Guillerme 3. Digesting in the long eighteenth century
Ian Miller 4. The soul in the entrails: the experience of the sick in the eighteenth century
Micheline Louis
Courvoisier Part II: Excremental operations 5. Sawney's seat: the social imaginary of the London bog
house c.1660
c.1800
Mark Jenner 6. Eighteenth
century paper: the readers' digest
Amélie Junqua 7. 'Words have no smell': faecal references in eighteenth
century French théâtre de société
Jennifer Ruimi 8. The legibility of the bowels: Lichtenberg's excretory vision of Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress
Anthony Mahler Part III: Burlesque bellies 9. Parodies of pompous knowledge: treatises on farting
Guilhem Armand 10. Potbelly, paunch and innards: variations on the abdomen in Marivaux's L'Homère travesti and Télémaque travesti
Clémence Aznavour 11. Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb
Rebecca Anne Barr 12. Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth's bodies
Frédéric Ogée Part IV: Visualising the viscera 13. Iconography of the belly: eighteenth
century satirical prints
Barbara Stentz 14. Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France
Dorothy Johnson 15. The saints of the entrails and the bowels of the earth
Jacques Gélis Select bibliography Index