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Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
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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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