Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-42781-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment. By analysing gastrointestinal health in medical, literary, and philosophical texts, this volume rethinks the intersections between literature and health in the nineteenth century and triggers new debates about France’s relationship with food. Of relevance to scholars of literature and to historians and sociologists of science, food, and medicine, it will provide ideal reading for students of French Literature and Culture, History, Cultural Studies, and History of Science and Medicine, Literature and Science, Food Studies, and the Medical Humanities. Readers will be introduced to new ways of approaching digestion in this period and will gain appreciation of the powerful resources offered by nineteenth-century French writing in understanding the nature of connections between gut, mind, and environment and the impact of these connections on our status as human beings.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mathias, Manon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction               

                       

Chapter 1. Digestion and human identity: Sand, Balzac, Flaubert

                                                                                                           

Chapter 2. ‘Une poétique de rebut’: re-thinking guts as interface

 

Chapter 3. Digestion and brain work in Zola and Huysmans

                                                                                                                       

Chapter 4. Autointoxication theory: the gut-psyche-bacteria connection

           

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines interactions between literature, science, and medicine in nineteenth-century France. She co-edited Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the author of Vision in the Novels of George Sand (Oxford University Press, 2016).