Overview
- Draws together the medical and the cultural, highlighting the importance of emotion in gut health
- Opens up a new approach to corporeality and advances the study of digestive health
- Challenges existing literature on food which has focused on gastronomy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“This collection is an excellent example of interdisciplinary medical humanities scholarship: its essays are erudite and informative: they engage critically with a range of literary, medical and scientific texts and put them into productive and thought-provoking dialogue. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the ideological, political and metaphorical significance of digestive health in nineteenth-century culture.” (Professor Hannah Thompson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow, UK, and author of Vision in the Novels of George Sand (2016).
Alison M. Moore is Senior Lecturer in modern European history and Convenor of History research at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is author with Peter Cryle of Frigidity, an Intellectual History (Palgrave, 2011), and author of Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, masochism and historical teleology (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture
Editors: Manon Mathias, Alison M. Moore
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01856-6Published: 27 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40438-3Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01857-3Published: 17 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, History of Science