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Porter, Roy, 1946-2002,

Flesh in the Age of Reason / Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama - 1st American ed - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c 2003 - xviii, 573 pages ; 25 cm

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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

"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"--Page 2 of jacket

ISBN: 0393050750 9780393050752 9780393326963 0393326969

LCCN: 2003070156

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism--18th century
Human body in literature
Enlightenment--Great Britain
Mind and body in literature
Rationalism in literature
Medicine--History--18th century
Philosophy
Body and soul in literature
History, 18th Century
Human Body
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Literature, Modern--history
Philosophy
Sociology, Medical--history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
United Kingdom

LC Class. No.: PR448.B63 / P67 2004

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH YNDC 820.93 P844F

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WZ 70 FA1 / P847f 2004