{"title":"‘Words have no smell’: faecal references in eighteenth-century French théâtre de société","authors":"Jennifer Ruimi","doi":"10.7228/manchester/9781526127051.003.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"During the eighteenth century, society theatre saw the emergence of forms that evaded censorship. Many of these works break with the rules of classical propriety and freely evoke the lower body, both the belly and its excremental waste. These references have a clear carnivalesque dimension, but this chapter argues that they also have wider aesthetic and ideological implications.","PeriodicalId":257444,"journal":{"name":"Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526127051.003.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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During the eighteenth century, society theatre saw the emergence of forms that evaded censorship. Many of these works break with the rules of classical propriety and freely evoke the lower body, both the belly and its excremental waste. These references have a clear carnivalesque dimension, but this chapter argues that they also have wider aesthetic and ideological implications.