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Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century - Barr, Rebecca Anne (Editor), and Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie (Editor), and Vasset, Sophie (Editor)
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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 ...

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Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century 2020, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526147967

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Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century 2018, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526127051

Hardcover