Read Flesh in the Age of Reason Online
Authors: Roy Porter
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #18th Century, #Cultural Anthropology, #20th Century, #Philosophy, #Science History, #Britain, #Amazon.com, #Retail, #Cultural History, #History
Innocent III, Bishop of Rome (Pope)
227
inoculation, smallpox
213
intelligence, artificial
16
–17
Iraenus
36
James II, King of England
113
James, Robert,
Medicinal Dictionary
(1743)
222
Jansenists
306
Jefferson, Thomas
233
Jenner, Edward
234
Jenyns, Soame
173
Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil
(1757)
176
Johnson, Elizabeth (‘Tetty’)
172
,
176
,
403
Johnson, Esther (Swift’s ‘Stella’)
149
Johnson, Michael
178
Johnson, Nathaniel
178
Johnson, Samuel
21
,
23
,
101
,
104
,
234
afterlife/death, fear of
183
–7,
206
beliefs
187
childhood & family life
178
–9
descriptions of
173
–5,
177
–8,
178
Dictionary of the English Language
(1755)
167
,
168
–9,
169
,
177
,
180
free will & determinism
418
Freud anticipated
178
Gentleman’s Magazine
180
on happiness
170
–71
human nature
433
on Hume
185
idleness/sloth
179
–81,
183
,
187
–8,
282
Life of Mr Richard Savage, The
(1744)
176
Lives of the English Poets
(1779–81)
168
,
175
London
(1738)
167
melancholy & madness
172
–6,
177
,
178
,
180
,
181
–3;
see also
health mind, nature of
347
on the soul
168
–9
on
Tristram Shandy
304
pessimism
176
Rambler
(1750)
167
,
173
,
179
–80,
183
,
184
Rasselas
(1759)
167
,
170
–72,
173
,
179
,
181
–2
religious torment
183
–6,
188
,
189
self, sense of
195
Shakespeare, edition of (1765)
168
,
180
Vanity of Human Wishes, The
(1749)
167
,
173
Jopson’s Coventry Mercury
214
Julian of Norwich
273
Kames, Lord, Henry Home
107
psychology
313
Sketches of the History of Man
(1774)
248
,
259
Kay, Richard
229
Keir, James
375
Kempe, Margery
273
Ken, Thomas
212
Kinglake, Alexander William
416
Kingsborough, Lady
267
Kingsley, Charles
229
–30
Kneller, Godfrey
240
Knowles, Mrs
186
La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de,
L’Homme machine
(1749)
350
Laing, R. D.
372
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Monet/Lamarckism
382
,
384
Lambton, John George, Lord,
415
Langton, Bennett
184
latitudinarianism/Latitudinarians
83
,
131
Lavater, Johann Caspar
255
–6
Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A
(1728)
183
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
176
Lely, Peter
240
Lennox, Charlotte,
Female Quixote, The
(1752)
282
Lettsom, John Coakley, on addiction
400
Levellers
82
Lichfield Botanic Society
377
life, nature of
54
–5
literacy, spread
22
Locke, John
13
,
51
,
62
,
80
,
85
,
108
–9,
124
,
231
,
235
,
241
Christianity
362
critics
8
,
95
–6,
132
,
134
–5,
138
,
370
,
410
demonized
435
education, on
116
,
265
–6,
393
,
422
eschatology
96
Essay concerning Human Understanding
(1690)
7
,
96
,
126
,
131
,
182
,
219
,
257
,
311
God, idea of
358
ideas, popularization of
125
–7,
169
influence
283
,
314
,
318
–19,
347
,
405
Journals
(1677)
311
materialism
472
Mr Locke’s Reply to… Bp of Worcester
(1699)
95
property, right to
225
psychology
313
Resurrection et quae sequuntur
(1707)
96
satirized
347
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
(1693)
131
,
198
,
231
,
262
–3
Two Treatises of Government
(1690)
131
longevism/prolongevism
118
,
153
,
428
Louis XIV, King of France
156
–7
Loves of the Plants, The
(1798)
418
Lowth, Robert,
Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews
(1787)
218
–19
Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead
278
Lucretia
376
Lunar Society (Birmingham)
375
–6,
413
Luther, Martin/Lutheranism
21
,
82
,
156
,
361
Macheath, Captain
(Beggar’s Opera, The)
192
,
281
Mackenzie, Henry,
Man of Feeling, The
(1771)
284
Macleod, Lady
177
madness & the insane
care & treatment
305
–6,
307
,
313
–14,
315
–16,
317
–18
medicalized
306
models of
305
–6,
307
–10,
311
–13,
318
–19
observation of
313
Malpighi, Marcello
52
Malthus, Daniel
429
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Essay on the Principle of Population
(1798)
429
–30
influences
429
–30
parodied
466
sexual materialism
430
–31
man/human beings
22
distinctions among
463
–4
education
see
perfectibility/progress equality among
424
–5,
431
Johnson on
169
–72
Mandeville on
142
–4
manners & morals
142
–4
nature of
137
–8,
169
–72,
177
,
398
,
423
,
464
nebulous
164
necessity, doctrine of
423
–4
optimism about
386
–7
perfectibility/progress
130
–31,
370
,
386
–7,
393
–6,
418
,
420
,
421
–2,
423
,
471
Promethean
390
psychological emphasis
472
rationality/ reason
151
,
153
–5,
250
–51
secular model
367
–8
self-made
8
self-presentation
116
–17
sociable/gregarious
116
–17,
129
,
138
,
142
–4,
203
,
397
social construct
16
uniqueness
194
–5
utilitarianism
424
Mandeville, Bernard de
10
,
130
,
140
,
177
,
421
body/mind relationship
141
–2
Fable of the Bees, The
(1714)
142
–4,
254
–5,
261
libido
428
Modest Defence of the Public Stews, A
(1724)
145
,
146
Virgin Unmask’d, The
(1709)
144
–6
on women
261
pleasure/pain psychology
349
print culture and
281
–3
see also
Addison & Steele
Marlowe, Christopher, Dr Faustus
6
Martineau, Harriet
406
Marvell, Andrew
‘Dialogue between the Soul and the Body’
39
–41
Marx, Karl
8
master-narrative
388
dangers
270
–71
mechanistic
434
Priestley on
371
,
376
,
378
,
419
,
453
,
472
scientific
158
–9