MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPR448.B63$bP67 2004
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100 1 $aPorter, Roy,$d1946-
245 10 $aFlesh in the Age of Reason /$cRoy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c2004.
300 $axviii, 573 p. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 475-555) and index.
505 0 $aKnow 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.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBody, Human, in literature.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y18th century.
650 0 $aEnlightenment$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aMind and body in literature.
650 0 $aRationalism in literature.
994 $aC0$bXIM