Chapter 1 The Gut Feelings of Medical Culture

Chapter 2 The Great American Evil—Indigestion: Digestive Health and Democratic Politics in Walt Whitman

Chapter 3 The “Second Brain”: Dietetics and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century France

Chapter 4 Situating the Anal Freud in Nineteenth-Century Imaginaries of Excrement and Colonial Primitivity

Chapter 5 Food for Thought: Consuming and Digesting as Political Metaphor in French Satirical Prints

Chapter 6 Being “Hangry”: Gastrointestinal Health and Emotional Well-Being in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 7 Visceralism and the Superior Mind in French Medicine and Literature, 1750–1850

Chapter 8 Digestion and Brain Work in Zola and Huysmans

Chapter 9 Textual (In)Digestions in Flaubert, Zola and Huysmans: Accumulation, Extraction, Regulation

Chapter 10 Hygiene, Food and Digestion in Post-Unified Italy: Paolo Mantegazza’s Medicine in the Kitchen and Beyond (1861–1900)

Chapter 12 Food Faiths: Gut Science and Spiritual Eating