Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death

Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall.

Locating materialism within the larger history of ideas, Vital Matters examines how and why eighteenth-century scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists questioned nature and its animating principles.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Deutsch, Helen (Editor), Terrall, Mary (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Life (Biology) > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
Matter > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
Life (Biology) > Philosophy
Matter > Philosophy
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Living with Lucretius
  • 2. Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation
  • 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep
  • 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception
  • 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance
  • 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda
  • 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity
  • 8. The 'Fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia
  • 9. Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine
  • 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum
  • 11. The Value of a Dead Body
  • 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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