Research Catalog

Title

Gut feeling and digestive health in nineteenth-century literature, history and culture / Manon Mathias, Alison M. Moore, editors.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mathias, Manon, 1984-
• Moore, Alison, 1972-

Description

xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Digestion in literature > History > 19th century
• Medicine in literature > History > 19th century
• Literature > History and criticism > 19th century
• Gastrointestinal system > Physiology
• Digestion in literature
• Literature
• Medicine in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Gut Feelings of Medical Culture / Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore -- The Great American Evil--Indigestion: Digestive Health and Democratic Politics in Walt Whitman / Tripp Rebrovick -- The "Second Brain": Dietetics and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century France / Bertrand Marquer -- Situating the Anal Freud in Nineteenth-Century Imaginaries of Excrement and Colonial Primitivity / Alison M. Moore -- Food for Thought: Consuming and Digesting as Political Metaphor in French Satirical Prints / Dorothy Johnson -- Being "Hangry": Gastrointestinal Health and Emotional Well-Being in the Long Nineteenth Century / Emilie Taylor-Brown -- Visceralism and the Superior Mind in French Medicine and Literature, 1750-1850 / Anne Vila -- Digestion and Brain Work in Zola and Huysmans / Manon Mathias -- Textual (In)Digestions in Flaubert, Zola and Huysmans: Accumulation, Extraction, Regulation / Larry Duffy -- Hygiene, Food and Digestion in Post-Unified Italy: Paolo Mantegazza's Medicine in the Kitchen and Beyond (1861-1900) / Cristiano Turbil -- The State and the Stomach: Feeding the Social Organism in 1830s New England / Molly S. Laas -- Food Faiths: Gut Science and Spiritual Eating / Catherine L. Newell.

Call Number

JFD 19-2291

ISBN

• 3030018563
• 9783030018566

OCLC

1051638540

Title

Gut feeling and digestive health in nineteenth-century literature, history and culture / Manon Mathias, Alison M. Moore, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Mathias, Manon, 1984- editor.

Moore, Alison, 1972- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2291