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

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Cultural Theory