TY - BOOK AU - Porter,Roy AU - Schama,Simon TI - Flesh in the Age of Reason SN - 0393050750 AV - PR448.B63 P67 2004 U1 - ARCH YNDC 820.93 P844F 22 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company, KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Human body in literature KW - Enlightenment KW - Great Britain KW - Mind and body in literature KW - Rationalism in literature KW - Medicine KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Body and soul in literature KW - History, 18th Century KW - Human Body KW - Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical KW - Literature, Modern KW - history KW - Sociology, Medical KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 KW - Intellectual life KW - United Kingdom N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -