Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall
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Deutsch Helen
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 570.109/033 |
| Soggetto topico: | Life (Biology) - Philosophy - History - 18th century |
| Matter - Philosophy - History - 18th century | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | TerrallMary |
| DeutschHelen <1961-> | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Vital matters |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9434-3 |
| 1-4426-9435-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785550903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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