Manon Mathias

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040022184
• Artikelnr.: 70140409

Autorenporträt

Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines interactions between literature, science, and medicine in nineteenth-century France. She co-edited Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the author of Vision in the Novels of George Sand (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Digestion and human identity: Sand, Balzac, Flaubert
Chapter 2. 'Une poétique de rebut': re-thinking guts as interface
Chapter 3. Digestion and brain work in Zola and Huysmans
Chapter 4. Autointoxication theory: the gut-psyche-bacteria connection
Conclusion