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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall
| Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall |
| Autore | Deutsch Helen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4426-9434-3
1-4426-9435-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Deutsch, Helen / Terrall, Mary -- 1. Living with Lucretius / Kramnick, Jonathan -- 2. Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation / Deutsch, Helen -- 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep / Chua, Kevin -- 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception / Stephanson, Raymond -- 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance / Terrall, Mary -- 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda / Harol, Corrinne -- 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity / Kang, Minsoo -- 8. The 'Fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia / Thompson, Helen -- 9. Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine / Williams, Elizabeth A. -- 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum / Chaplin, Simon -- 11. The Value of a Dead Body / Guerrini, Anita -- 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain / Clymer, Lorna -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462242303321 |
Deutsch Helen
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall
| Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall |
| Autore | Deutsch Helen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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 |
| ISBN |
1-4426-9434-3
1-4426-9435-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785550903321 |
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Deutsch Helen
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall
| Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall |
| Autore | Deutsch Helen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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 |
| ISBN |
1-4426-9434-3
1-4426-9435-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819715103321 |
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Deutsch Helen
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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