{"product_id":"vital-matters-helen-deutsch-9781442642584","title":"Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the body and the immaterial world of the mind and soul. Locating materialism within the larger history of ideas, \u003cem\u003eVital Matters\u003c\/em\u003e examines how and why eighteenth-century scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists questioned nature and its animating principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, interdisciplinary essays by premier scholars in literary studies, art history, and the history of science and medicine analyse a wide range of subjects, including ghosts and funerary practices, dissection and digestion, automata, and monstrous births. Featuring new approaches to literary texts such as Lawrence Sterne's \u003cem\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/em\u003e and paintings such as Girodet's \u003cem\u003eEternal Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as new research on cases from the history of medicine and the history of science, \u003cem\u003eVital Matters\u003c\/em\u003e reconsiders Enlightenment oppositions between body and mind, brain and soul, life and death, and the physical and the abstract.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Deutsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442642580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442642584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Helen Deutsch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013929513215,"sku":"9781442642584","price":91.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5dc780fd-257a-45db-b9e4-82af1515ec6f.jpg?v=1767745650","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vital-matters-helen-deutsch-9781442642584","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}