Book ID: CBB001200736

Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (2012)

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Terrall, Mary (Editor)
Deutsch, Helen (Editor)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: viii + 333 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

"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"--Pub. desc.

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Essay Review Costa, Erica da (2013) The Mystery of Matter. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (pp. 103-109). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Kramnick, Jonathan (2012) Living with Lucretius. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 13). unapi

Chapter Deutsch, Helen (2012) Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 39). unapi

Chapter Stephanson, Raymond (2012) Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 93). unapi

Chapter Thompson, Helen (2012) The “Fair Savage”: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 174). unapi

Chapter Chaplin, Simon (2012) The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 222). unapi

Chapter Guerrini, Anita (2012) The Value of a Dead Body. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 246). unapi

Chapter Deutsch, Helen; Terrall, Mary (2012) Introduction. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Chua, Kevin (2012) Girodet and the Eternal Sleep. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 57). unapi

Chapter Terrall, Mary (2012) Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 109). unapi

Chapter Harol, Corrinne (2012) Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 130). unapi

Chapter Kang, Minsoo (2012) From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 148). unapi

Chapter Williams, Elizabeth A. (2012) Food and Feeling: “Digestive Force” and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 203). unapi

Chapter Clymer, Lorna (2012) Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain. In: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (p. 265). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Spence, Christine
Razzell, Peter E.
Fallon, Cara Kiernan
Lukáš Novotný
Wendland, Claire
Valérie Tóthová
Concepts
Vital statistics
Public health
Mortality
Childbirth
Women and health
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
England
Great Britain
London (England)
United States
France
Malawi
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