Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century /

Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Description:	xvii, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
Subject:	Enlightenment. Human body (Philosophy) Self. Enlightenment. Human body (Philosophy) Self.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11864182

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Barr, Rebecca Anne, editor. Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie, 1966- editor. Vasset, Sophie, editor.
ISBN:	1526127059 9781526127051 9781526127075 (ePub ebook) 9781526127068 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Regenstein, Bookstacks

Loading map link

Holdings details from Regenstein, Bookstacks
Call Number:	B105.B64 B45 2018
c.1	Available Loan period: standard loan Scan and Deliver Request for Pickup Need help? - Ask a Librarian