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Porter, Roy, 1946-
Subjects
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Body, Human, in literature.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Mind and body in literature.
Rationalism in literature.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Flesh in the Age of ...
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Flesh in the Age of Reason / Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama.
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Porter, Roy, 1946-
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Subjects
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Body, Human, in literature.
Enlightenment
-- Great Britain.
Mind and body in literature.
Rationalism in literature.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
ISBN:
0393050750
Description:
xviii, 573 p. ; 25 cm.
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1st American ed.
Contents:
Know yourself -- Religion and the soul -- Medicine and the body -- The rational self -- Science rescues the spirit -- John Locke rewrites the soul -- The spectator : the polite self in the polite body -- Shaftesbury and Mandeville -- Swift and the Scriblerans : nightmare selves -- Johnson and incorporated minds -- Edward Gibbon : fame and mortality -- This mortal coil -- Flesh and form -- Putting on a face -- Sexing the self -- Telling yourself -- And who are you? -- Unreason -- Scottish selves -- Psychologizing the self -- Industrial bodies -- Dependent bodies -- William Godwin : awakening the mind -- William Blake : the body mystical -- Byron : sexy satire -- The march of mind.
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PR448.B63 P67 2004
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