Chapter 1 The Gut Feelings of Medical Culture, Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore.- Chapter 2 The Great American Evil-Indigestion Digestive Health and Democratic Politics in Walt Whitman, Tripp Rebrovick.- Chapter 3 The Second Brain Dietetics and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century France, Bertrand Marquer.- Chapter 4 Situating the Anal Freud in Nineteenth-Century Imaginaries of Excrement and Colonial Primitivity, Alison M. Moore.- Chapter 5 Food for Thought Consuming and Digesting as Political Metaphor in French Satirical Prints, Dorothy Johnson.- Chapter 6 Being Hangry Gastrointestinal Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Science, Emilie Taylor-Brown.- Chapter 7 Visceralism and the Superior Mind in French Medicine and Literature, 1750-1850, Anne Vila.- Chapter 8 Digestion and Brain Work in Zola and Huysmans, Manon Mathias.- Chapter 9 Textual Ingestions and Indigestions in Flaubert, Zola and Huysmans, Larry Duffy.- Chapter 10 Hygiene, Food and Digestio