TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Roy
TI  - Flesh in the Age of Reason
SN  - 0393050750
AV  - PR 448 .B63 P67 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - English literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Mind and body in literature
KW  - Rationalism in literature
KW  - Litt�erature anglaise
KW  - 18e si�ecle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Corps humain dans la litt�erature
KW  - Si�ecle des lumi�eres
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Esprit et corps dans la litt�erature
KW  - Rationalisme dans la litt�erature
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
N1  - Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003; Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-555) and index; 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
N2  - "How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? ... Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self"--p. [2] of jacket
ER  -