Flesh in the Age of Reason
Siècle des lumières
Body, Human, in literature
Human body in literature
History, 18th Century
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
English literature, history and criticism, 18th century
Medical Sociology
Great britain, intellectual life
Enlightenment
Littérature anglaise
Vie intellectuelle
Great britain, social conditions
Human body
Médecine
Modern Literature
Intellectual life
Histoire et critique
Medicine
English literature
Philosophy
History and criticism
History
"Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, 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. He …
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