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.
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.
Introduction Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall 1 Living with Lucretius Jonathan Kramnick 2 Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation Helen Deutsch 3 Girodet and the Eternal Sleep Kevin Chua 4 Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception Raymond Stephanson 5 Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and Inheritance Mary Terrall 6 Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming-Pan Propaganda Corrinne Harol 7 From the Man-Machine to the Automation-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity Minsoo Kang 8 The ‘fair Savage’: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia Helen Thompson 9 Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine Elizabeth A. Williams 10 The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the Bishop of Durham's rectum Simon Chaplin 11 The Value of a Dead Body Anita Guerrini 12 Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain Lorna Clymer Contributors Index
Introduction Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall 1 Living with Lucretius Jonathan Kramnick 2 Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation Helen Deutsch 3 Girodet and the Eternal Sleep Kevin Chua 4 Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception Raymond Stephanson 5 Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and Inheritance Mary Terrall 6 Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming-Pan Propaganda Corrinne Harol 7 From the Man-Machine to the Automation-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity Minsoo Kang 8 The ‘fair Savage’: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia Helen Thompson 9 Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine Elizabeth A. Williams 10 The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the Bishop of Durham's rectum Simon Chaplin 11 The Value of a Dead Body Anita Guerrini 12 Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain Lorna Clymer Contributors Index
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