Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture

283 Pages·2019·4.44 MB·English

by  Manon Mathias, Alison M Moore

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Gut Feeling and Digestive
Health in Nineteenth-Century
Literature, History and Culture
EDITED BY MANON MATHIAS
AND ALISON M. MOORE
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Gut Feeling and
Digestive Health in
Nineteenth-Century
Literature, History
and Culture
Editors
Manon Mathias Alison M. Moore
University of Glasgow Western Sydney University
Glasgow, UK Penrith, NSW, Australia
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A
cknowledgements
The editors gratefully acknowledge the following individuals and institu-
tions for enabling this book to become a reality: Manon Mathias would
like to thank the following organizations for supporting the symposium:
the British Academy; the British Society for Literature and Science; the
Society for the Study of French History; the Society for French Studies;
and the University of Aberdeen School of Language, Literature, Music,
and Visual Culture. Both editors thank the Palgrave anonymous review-
ers for their helpful suggestions for improvement of this volume.
Alison M. Moore thanks Western Sydney University for providing a
Women’s Fellowship toward undergraduate teaching-relief in 2016 on
the theme of ‘Transcending the Science-Humanities Divide’, and the
British Academy for supporting her travel to the first ‘Gut Feeling’ sym-
posium organized by Manon Mathias in Aberdeen, May 2017. Alison
would also like to thank a termite’s tiny intestinal micro-organisms that
all danced an interactive wonder of inconceivable complexity before her
eyes when she misread the laboratory instruction and put water on her
slide instead of ethanol while studying physiology at the University of
New England in 2013. This experience opened a whole new world of
curiosity for her in microbiology and physiology, producing an openness
to inter-disciplinary collaboration.
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c
ontents
1 The Gut Feelings of Medical Culture 1
Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore
2 The Great American Evil—Indigestion: Digestive
Health and Democratic Politics in Walt Whitman 15
Tripp Rebrovick
3 The “Second Brain”: Dietetics and Ideology
in Nineteenth-Century France 37
Bertrand Marquer
4 Situating the Anal Freud in Nineteenth-Century
Imaginaries of Excrement and Colonial Primitivity 55
Alison M. Moore
5 Food for Thought: Consuming and Digesting
as Political Metaphor in French Satirical Prints 85
Dorothy Johnson
6 Being “Hangry”: Gastrointestinal Health
and Emotional Well-Being in the Long
Nineteenth Century 109
Emilie Taylor-Brown
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viii CONTENTS
7 Visceralism and the Superior Mind in French
Medicine and Literature, 1750–1850 133
Anne Vila
8 Digestion and Brain Work in Zola and Huysmans 155
Manon Mathias
9 Textual (In)Digestions in Flaubert, Zola
and Huysmans: Accumulation, Extraction, Regulation 177
Larry Duffy
10 Hygiene, Food and Digestion in Post-Unified Italy:
Paolo Mantegazza’s Medicine in the Kitchen
and Beyond (1861–1900) 205
Cristiano Turbil
11 The State and the Stomach: Feeding the Social
Organism in 1830s New England 225
Molly S. Laas
12 Food Faiths: Gut Science and Spiritual Eating 243
Catherine L. Newell
Index 261
c
ontributors
Larry Duffy University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Dorothy Johnson University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Molly S. Laas University of Göttingen Medical School, Göttingen,
Germany
Bertrand Marquer University of Strasbourg and Institut Universitaire
de France, Strasbourg, France
Manon Mathias University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Alison M. Moore Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
Catherine L. Newell University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Tripp Rebrovick Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Emilie Taylor-Brown St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford,
UK
Cristiano Turbil Historian of Science and Medicine, King’s College
London, London, UK
Anne Vila University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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ist of igures
Fig. 4.1 Gustave Dore’s illustration of Gargantua for the 1928
Garnier edition of Rabelais’ text that Freud read before
the dream described in The Interpretation of Dreams, 8th
edition. Wikimedia Commons 65
Fig. 5.1 Anonymous, Le Ci-Devant Grand Couvert de Gargantua
moderne en famille, 1791, engraving, Bibliothèque Nationale
de France, Paris 90
Fig. 5.2 Les formes acerbes, etching attributed to a drawing of Lafitte
after Poirier de Dunkerque, 1795, Bibliothèque nationale
de France, Paris 92
Fig. 5.3 Anonymous, Un monstre à trois têtes désignant les trois états
de l’aristocratie, colored etching, 1790, British Museum,
Trustees of the British Museum 93
Fig. 5.4 James Gillray, Un petit souper, à la Parisienne;—or—A Family
of Sans-culottes Refreshing After the Fatigues
of the Day, colored etching, 1792, British Museum,
Trustees of the British Museum 95
Fig. 5.5 Jacques-Louis David, The English Government, 1794,
engraving, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 99
Fig. 5.6 Jacques-Louis David, The Royal Army of Jugs, 1794,
engraving, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 99
Fig. 5.7 Honoré Daumier, Gargantua, December 16, 1831,
lithograph. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 103
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