Vital Matters

Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and soul. 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.In this volume, interdisciplinary essays by premier scholars in literary studies, art history, and the history of science and medicine analyse a wide range of subjects, including ghosts and funerary practices, dissection and digestion, automata, and monstrous births. Featuring new approaches to literary texts such as Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and paintings such as Girodet's Eternal Sleep, as well as new research on cases from the history of medicine and the history of science, Vital Matters reconsiders Enlightenment oppositions between body and mind, brain and soul, life and death, and the physical and the abstract.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-09
Mått160 x 237 x 30 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieUCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Antal sidor344
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442642584

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IntroductionHelen Deutsch and Mary Terrall1 Living with LucretiusJonathan Kramnick2 Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic AnimationHelen Deutsch3 Girodet and the Eternal SleepKevin Chua4 Tristram Shandy and the Art of ConceptionRaymond Stephanson5 Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and InheritanceMary Terrall6 Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming-Pan PropagandaCorrinne Harol7 From the Man-Machine to the Automation-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of HumanityMinsoo Kang8 The ‘fair Savage’: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of OpheliaHelen Thompson9 Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist MedicineElizabeth A. Williams10 The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the Bishop of Durham's rectumSimon Chaplin11 The Value of a Dead BodyAnita Guerrini12 Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern BritainLorna ClymerContributorsIndex

‘This is a collection that is breathtaking in its range… Deutsch and Terrall have compiled an admirably broad range of contributions on a topic of crucial importance for eighteenth-century studies, and this is a book that deserves to be read by students of its themes and period. In the final analysis, Vital Matters matters.’ - Andrew Wells (Modern Language Review vol 109:01:2014) ‘This study would fascinate anyone with even slightest interest in either the eighteenth century or the perennial issues of life and death that it explores…A superb collection… Vital Matters is a wonderful contribution to the literature of eighteenth century thought.’ - James Stacey Taylor (The Historian vol 76:03:2014)