Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines interactions between literature, science, and medicine in nineteenth-century France. She co-edited Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the author of Vision in the Novels of George Sand (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Digestion and human identity: Sand, Balzac, FlaubertChapter 2. ‘Une poétique de rebut’: re-thinking guts as interfaceChapter 3. Digestion and brain work in Zola and HuysmansChapter 4. Autointoxication theory: the gut-psyche-bacteria connectionConclusion

Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines interactions between literature, science, and medicine in nineteenth-century France. She co-edited Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the author of Vision in the Novels of George Sand (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Digestion and human identity: Sand, Balzac, FlaubertChapter 2. ‘Une poétique de rebut’: re-thinking guts as interfaceChapter 3. Digestion and brain work in Zola and HuysmansChapter 4. Autointoxication theory: the gut-psyche-bacteria connectionConclusion

Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines interactions between literature, science, and medicine in nineteenth-century France. She co-edited Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and is the author of Vision in the Novels of George Sand (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Digestion and human identity: Sand, Balzac, FlaubertChapter 2. ‘Une poétique de rebut’: re-thinking guts as interfaceChapter 3. Digestion and brain work in Zola and HuysmansChapter 4. Autointoxication theory: the gut-psyche-bacteria connectionConclusion