Eighteenth-Century Vitalism - Bodies, Culture, Politics

Informationen zum Autor CATHERINE PACKHAM Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, UK. Klappentext This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. Zusammenfassung This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy! and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment! and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Eighteenth Century Vitalism Forms of Enlightenment: Embodied Beings in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Generating Sympathy: Sensibility, Animation, and Vitality in Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft Labouring Bodies in Political Economy: Labour, Vitalist Physiology and the Body Politic Enlightenment Legacies and Cultural Radicalism: Physiology and Politics in the 1790s Animated Nature: Erasmus Darwin and the Poetry and Politics of Vital Matter, 1789-1803 Animation and Vitality in Women's Writing of the 1790s Conclusion: Eighteenth-century Vitalism, Romantic Organicism, Literature and the Disciplines Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Packham, C Packham, C. Packham, Catherine Packham, Packham Catherine
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9780230276185
• ISBN: 978-0-230-27618-5
• Seiten: 259
• Serien: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, culture;English literature;poetry;Romanticism