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Life (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century.
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Matter -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century.
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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 |
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Alt author |
Deutsch, Helen,
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Terrall, Mary,
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ISBN |
9781442694354 |
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1442694351 |
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9781442642584 |
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1442642580 |
Standard # |
10.3138/9781442694354 doi |
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