Packham, Catherine
Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
1. Introduction
Catherine Packham
Part I. Writing the Body in the Scottish Enlightenment
2. Forms of Enlightenment: Embodied Beings in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Catherine Packham
3. Generating Sympathy: Sensibility, Animation and Vitality in Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft
Catherine Packham
4. Labouring Bodies in Political Economy: Vitalist Physiology and the Body Politic
Catherine Packham
Part II. Enlightenment in the 1790s: The Scottish Legacy
5. Enlightenment Legacies and Cultural Radicalism: Physiology and Politics in the 1790s
Catherine Packham
Part III. Vitalism, Animation, Culture
6. Animated Nature: Erasmus Darwin and the Poetry and Politics of Vital Matter, 1789–1803
Catherine Packham
7. Animation and Vitality in Women’s Writing of the 1790s
Catherine Packham
8. Conclusion: Eighteenth-Century Vitalism, Romanticism, Literature and the Disciplines
Catherine Packham
Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Cultural Theory
- Author(s)
- Packham, Catherine
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Page amount
- 259 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230368392
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-32507-8