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Vital Matters : Eighteenth Century Views of Conception.Life * Death /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Terrall, Mary (Editor ), Deutsch, Helen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Figures --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction --  |t 1. Living with Lucretius --  |t 2. Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation --  |t 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep --  |t 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception --  |t 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance --  |t 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda --  |t 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity --  |t 8. The 'Fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia --  |t 9. Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine --  |t 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum --  |t 11. The Value of a Dead Body --  |t 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain --  |t Contributors --  |t Index. 
520 |a 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. 
546 |a In English. 
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650 6 |a Vie (Biologie)  |x Philosophie  |x Histoire  |y 18e siecle. 
650 0 |a Matter  |x Philosophy  |x History  |y 18th century. 
650 0 |a Life (Biology)  |x Philosophy  |x History  |y 18th century. 
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