{"product_id":"vital-matters-9781442642584","title":"Vital Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLocating 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a collection that is breathtaking in its range... Deutsch and Terrall have compiled an admirably broad range of contributions on a topic of crucial importance for eighteenth-century studies, and this is a book that deserves to be read by students of its themes and period. In the final analysis, Vital Matters matters.' -- Andrew Wells Modern Language Review vol 109:01:2014 'This study would fascinate anyone with even slightest interest in either the eighteenth century or the perennial issues of life and death that it explores...A superb collection... Vital Matters is a wonderful contribution to the literature of eighteenth century thought.' -- James Stacey Taylor The Historian vol 76:03:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Helen  Deutsch and Mary Terrall  1   Living with Lucretius Jonathan  Kramnick  2   Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic  Animation Helen  Deutsch  3   Girodet and the Eternal Sleep Kevin  Chua  4  Tristram  Shandy and the Art of Conception Raymond  Stephanson  5   Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and Inheritance Mary  Terrall  6   Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming-Pan Propaganda Corrinne  Harol  7   From the Man-Machine to the Automation-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of  the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity Minsoo  Kang  8   The 'fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The  History of Ophelia   Helen  Thompson  9   Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in  Vitalist Medicine Elizabeth  A. Williams    10   The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the  Bishop of Durham's rectum Simon  Chaplin  11   The Value of a Dead Body Anita  Guerrini  12   Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern  Britain Lorna  Clymer  Contributors  Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195279733079,"sku":"9781442642584","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442642584.jpg?v=1763647021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vital-matters-9781442642584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}