Rebecca Anne (Hrsg.) Barr

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

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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 h… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie (Hrsg.) / Vasset, Sophie (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-5261-4796-7
EAN: 9781526147967
Produktnummer: 33283373
Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.4 cm 700 g
Reihenbandnummer: 5
Gewicht: 700

Über den Autor

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