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Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Subjects
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Mind and body in literature.
Rationalism in literature.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Flesh in the Age of ...
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Flesh in the Age of Reason / Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama.
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Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Subjects
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Mind and body in literature.
Rationalism in literature.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
ISBN:
0393050750
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xviii, 573 p. ; 25 cm.
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1st American ed.
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"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"--p. [2] of jacket.
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Hawaii State Library
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820.93561 Po
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