Front matter -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century -- PART I Urban congestion and human digestion -- The belly and the...
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century -- PART I Urban congestion and human digestion -- The belly and the viscera of the capital city -- The intestinal labours of Paris -- Digesting in the long eighteenth century -- The soul in the entrails: the experience of the sick in the eighteenth century -- PART II Excremental operations -- Sawney's seat: the social imaginary of the London bog-house c.1660-c.1800 -- Eighteenth-century paper: the readers' digest -- 'Words have no smell': faecal references in eighteenth-century French thé âtre de société -- The legibility of the bowels: Lichtenberg's excretory vision of Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress -- PART III Burlesque bellies -- Parodies of pompous knowledge: treatises on farting -- Potbelly, paunch and innards: variations on the abdomen in Marivaux's L'Homère travesti and Le Télémaque travesti -- Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb -- Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth's bodies -- PART IV Visualising the viscera -- Iconography of the belly: eighteenth-century satirical prints -- Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France -- The saints of the entrails and the bowels of the earth -- Select bibliography -- Index
