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This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the
gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific
research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide
interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and
metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century
life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to
science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on
Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse
methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth
century was an important moment in the Western understanding and
perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to
the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the
emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are
often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout
a range of cultural productions.Â
This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the
gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific
research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide
interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and
metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century
life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to
science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on
Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse
methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth
century was an important moment in the Western understanding and
perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to
the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the
emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are
often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout
a range of cultural productions.
The first study of George Sand and vision, this book considers the
pull between the visual and the visionary in nineteenth-century
France through an examination of Sand's novels. With an extensive
corpus ranging from Sand's early texts through to her later, less
familiar works, it repositions Sand's oeuvre alongside that of the
major realist authors and demonstrates her distinctive
understanding of the novel as a combination of the concrete and the
abstract. By studying Sand's engagement with visual models
associated with realism-the mirror, the model of painting, and the
scientific gaze-this book proposes a more sustained dialogue
between Sand's work and realism than has hitherto been
acknowledged, but argues that Sand radically reworks these models
to depict a dynamic, mysterious and ever-changing world. Whereas
Sand has been read as an author bypassing reality in favour of the
ideal, this study shows that she is committed to physical
observation, but that she consistently ties this process with the
conceptual and the visionary. The book breaks new ground in
particular by examining Sand's literary engagement with the visual
arts, and it also offers the first sustained consideration of Sand
as a scientific writer. By examining Sand's oeuvre from the
perspective of vision, this study not only reassesses Sand's
writing practice, but also rethinks the relations between the
visual and the novel in this period. More specifically, it argues
that Sand's work challenges our means of theorizing these
relations. In her rejection of binaries and her syncretic
understanding of vision, Sand breaks conventional categories and
writes novels that are at once realist, visionary, mystical and
scientific.
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