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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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2012]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.