Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)

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. Living With Lucretius / Jonathan Kramnick -- Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, And Poetic Animation / Helen Deutsch -- Girodet And The Eternal Sleep / Kevin Chua -- Tristram Shandy And The Art Of Conception / Raymond Stephanson -- Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility And Inheritance / Mary Terrall -- Misconceiving The Heir: Mind And Matter In The Warming-pan Propaganda / Corrinne Harol -- From The Man-machine To The Automation-man: The Enlightenment Origins Of The Mechanistic Imagery Of Humanity / Minsoo Kang -- The 'fair Savage': Empiricism And Essence In Sarah Fielding's The History Of Ophelia / Helen Thompson -- Food And Feeling: 'digestive Force' And The Nature Of Morbidity In Vitalist Medicine / Elizabeth A. Williams -- The Divine Touch, Or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, And The Bishop Of Durham's Rectum / Simon Chaplin -- The Value Of A Dead Body / Anita Guerrini -- Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations And Obituaries In Early Modern Britain / Lorna Clymer. Edited By Helen Deutsch And Mary Terrall. Published In Association With The Ucla Center For Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-century Studies And The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 14 1 Living with Lucretius 24 2 Dismantl’d Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation 50 3 Girodet and the Eternal Sleep 68 4 Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception 104 5 Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance 120 6 Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda 141 7 From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity 159 8 The ‘Fair Savage’: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia 185 9 Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine 214 10 The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham’s Rectum 233 11 The Value of a Dead Body 257 12 Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain 276 Contributors 318 Index 322 A 322 B 322 C 324 D 326 E 327 F 329 G 330 H 331 I 333 J 333 K 334 L 334 M 336 N 337 O 338 P 338 R 339 S 340 T 342 U 343 V 343 W 343 Y 344 Z 344

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.

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.