Vital Matters

Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death
Herausgeber: Deutsch, Helen; Terrall, Mary

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781442642584
• ISBN-10: 1442642580
• Artikelnr.: 33807699

Autorenporträt

Edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall

Inhaltsangabe

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