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

Emilie Taylor-Pirie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3_6

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

Emilie Taylor-Pirie

English, Drama and Creative Studies

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This essay explores the tropes and metaphors that make up the nineteenth-century literary and scientific aesthetics of gastrointestinal health, paying attention to the ways in which these frameworks blurred the boundaries between analogy and lived experience. This was a time apparently beset by the emotional violence of improper digestion, speaking to the recent term “hangry” to mean “being angry as a result of being hungry”, which too forwards a physiologically embodied understanding of anger. In the nineteenth century, this phenomenon intervened in debates concerning the interconnectedness of the gastrointestinal and psychiatric or neurological systems. From chronic indigestion to dyspeptic hypochondriasis, the lexis of violence was one of the many lenses through which writers strove to pin down the mechanics of digestive health.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History, and Culture
Editors	Manon Mathias, Alison Moore
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	109-132
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3_6
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

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Keywords

gut health
microbiome
History of emotions
Literature and Science
medical humanities
digestion
dyspepsia
hanger
hunger
anger
hypochondria
food

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Taylor-Pirie, E. (2018). Being “Hangry”: Gastrointestinal Health and Emotional Well-Being in the Long Nineteenth Century. In M. Mathias, & A. Moore (Eds.), Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History, and Culture (pp. 109-132). (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3_6

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Taylor-Pirie, E 2018, Being “Hangry”: Gastrointestinal Health and Emotional Well-Being in the Long Nineteenth Century. in M Mathias & A Moore (eds), Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History, and Culture. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-132. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3_6

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Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History, and Culture. ed. / Manon Mathias; Alison Moore. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 109-132 (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine).

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