| Description |
1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities Series |
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Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on translations -- Introduction -- 1. Digestion and human identity: Sand, Balzac, Flaubert -- 2. 'Une poétique de rebut': Rethinking guts as interface -- 3. Digestion and brain work in Zola and Huysmans -- 4. Autointoxication theory: The gut-psyche-bacteria connection -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040022184 |
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1040022189 |
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