Introduction
Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall
1 Living with Lucretius
Jonathan Kramnick
2 Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation
Helen Deutsch
3 Girodet and the Eternal Sleep
Kevin Chua
4 Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception
Raymond Stephanson
5 Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility and Inheritance
Mary Terrall
6 Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming-Pan Propaganda
Corrinne Harol
7 From the Man-Machine to the Automation-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity
Minsoo Kang
8 The ‘fair Savage’: Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia
Helen Thompson
9 Food and Feeling: ‘Digestive Force’ and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine
Elizabeth A. Williams
10 The divine touch, or touching divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the Bishop of Durham's rectum
Simon Chaplin
11 The Value of a Dead Body
Anita Guerrini
12 Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain
Lorna Clymer
Contributors
Index