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.
Temas:
Matter > Philosophy.
Life (Biology) > Philosophy.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
NATURE > Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Matiere > Philosophie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Vie (Biologie) > Philosophie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Matter > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
Life (Biology) > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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