Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

Rebecca Anne Barr is Lecturer above the bar at the National University of Ireland, Galway Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon is Maître de conférences at Université Paris 8 Sophie Vasset is Maître de conférences at Université Paris-Diderot -- .

Introduction: entrails and digestion in the eighteenth century – Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Sophie Vasset

Part I: Urban congestion and human digestion
1. The belly and the viscera of the capital city – Gilles Thomas
2. The intestinal labours of Paris – Sabine Barles and André Guillerme
3. Digesting in the long eighteenth century – Ian Miller
4. The soul in the entrails: the experience of the sick in the eighteenth century – Micheline Louis-Courvoisier

Part II: Excremental operations
5. Sawney’s seat: the social imaginary of the London bog-house c.1660–c.1800 – Mark Jenner
6. Eighteenth-century paper: the readers’ digest – Amélie Junqua
7. ‘Words have no smell’: faecal references in eighteenth-century French théâtre de société – Jennifer Ruimi
8. The legibility of the bowels: Lichtenberg’s excretory vision of Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress – Anthony Mahler

Part III: Burlesque bellies
9. Parodies of pompous knowledge: treatises on farting – Guilhem Armand
10. Potbelly, paunch and innards: variations on the abdomen in Marivaux’s L'Homère travesti and Télémaque travesti – Clémence Aznavour
11. Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Coxcomb – Rebecca Anne Barr
12. Rotund bellies and double chins: Hogarth’s bodies – Frédéric Ogée

Part IV: Visualising the viscera
13. Iconography of the belly: eighteenth-century satirical prints – Barbara Stentz
14. Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France – Dorothy Johnson
15. The saints of the entrails and the bowels of the earth – Jacques Gélis

Select bibliography
Index -- .