Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum 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 Klappentext This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities! emotions! and perceptions of the self. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century - Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Sophie Vasset Part I: Urban congestion and human digestion 1. The belly and the viscera of the capital city - Gilles Thomas 2. The intestinal labours of Paris - Sabine Barles and André Guillerme 3. Digesting in the long eighteenth century - Ian Miller4. The soul in the entrails: the experience of the sick in the eighteenth century - Micheline Louis-Courvoisier Part II: Excremental operations5. Sawney's seat: the social imaginary of the London bog-house c.1660-c.1800 - Mark Jenner 6. Eighteenth-century paper: the readers' digest - Amélie Junqua 7. 'Words have no smell': faecal references in eighteenth-century French théâtre de société - Jennifer Ruimi 8. The legibility of the bowels: Lichtenberg's excretory vision of Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress - Anthony MahlerPart III: Burlesque bellies9. Parodies of pompous knowledge: treatises on farting - Guilhem Armand 10. Potbelly, paunch and innards: variations on the abdomen in Marivaux's L'Homère travesti and Télémaque travesti - Clémence Aznavour11. Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb - Rebecca Anne Barr 12. Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth's bodies - Frédéric Ogée Part IV: Visualising the viscera13. Iconography of the belly: eighteenth-century satirical prints - Barbara Stentz 14. Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France - Dorothy Johnson 15. The saints of the entrails and the bowels of the earth - Jacques Gélis Select bibliography Index...

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• Autori: Rebecca Anne Barr, Rebecca Anne Kleiman-Lafon Barr
• Con la collaborazione di: Rebecca Anne Barr (Editore), Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon (Editore), Sophie Vasset (Editore), Vasset Sophie (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781526147967
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4796-7
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Ce
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, ART / History / European / Romanticism