Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Living with Lucretius 13
7. 2. Dismantl’d Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation 39
8. 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep 57
9. 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception 93
10. 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance 109
11. 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda 130
12. 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity 148
13. 8. The ‘Fair Savage’: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia 174
14. 9. Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine 203
15. 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham’s Rectum 222
16. 11. The Value of a Dead Body 246
17. 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain 265
18. Contributors 307
19. Index 311