Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mathias, Manon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Moore, Alison M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature-History and criticism.; History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Literary History.; History of Science.

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 nineteen...