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Cox, Joseph Mason
313

Crichton, Alexander,
Inquiry into… Mental Derangement, An
(1798)
312
–13

Crick, Francis,
Astonishing Hypothesis, The
(1994)
371
–2

Cromwell, Oliver
113

Crosbie, Mr
187

Cudworth, Ralph
89
–90,
102
,
131
,
140
,
382

True Intellectual System of the Universe, The
(1678)
86
–7

Cullen, William
378

on madness
311
–12

culture, feminization
282

Curchod, Suzanne
198

Cutler, John
163
–4

Dance of Death 2112

Dante, Alighieri
34
,
410

Divine Comedy
7

Darwin, Charles
468

Darwin, Erasmus
8
,
373
,
413

evolution
382
,
384
–5,
386

human sexuality
381
,
385

industrialization, benefits of
388
–9,
397

influence
405

learning, theory of
360
–61,
383
–4,
425
,
426

materialism
377
–8,
388

medical theories
379
–80,
414

on Unitarianism
419
–20

parodied
429

philosophy
381

satirized
418

Temple of Nature, The
(1803)
378
,
381
,
385
–6,
389
–90

Zoonomia
(1794–6)
377
,
378
,
380
,
385

Darwinism
16

Davies, John,
Nosce teipsum
(1599)
63

Davy, Humphry
415
–16,
417

Researches, Chemical and Philosophical
(1800)
416

Day, Thomas, educational project
375
–6

De Quincey, Thomas
403

death/dying

burial, premature
214
–16

corpse, watching
217
–18

Dance of Death
211
–12

embalming, practice of
220
–21

fear of
473

ideas about, origin of
218
–19

Judaeo-Christian practices
211
–12,
212
–13,
219

near-death experiences
217

preparing for
212

prevention
213
–14

secularization
213
–14,
216
,
220
,
221
–2,
222
–3,
226

Victorian cult
473

see also
afterlife

deconstructionism
15

Defoe, Daniel
98

Moll Flanders
(1722)
279

Robinson Crusoe
(1719–20)
279
–80

Deists
363

Democritus
51
,
84

Demosthenes
191

Derrida, Jacques
14

Descartes, René
87
,
88

animals, as automata
58
,
65
–6

body/mind dualism
59
,
60

Cambridge Platonists
69
–70

Discours de la méthode
(1637)
6
–7,
65
–6

dualism
141
–2,
470

La Description du corps humain
(1648)
66

madness, theory of
308

mechanical philosophy
51
,
52
,
66
–8,
159

rationalism
23
–24,
55

reason
65

Règles pour la direction de l’esprit
(1701)
66
–7

satirized
115
,
133
–4,
162

Tractatus de Formatione Foetus
(1662)
66

Traité de l’Homme
(1648)

see also
Cartesianism

determinism
366
,
418

Diderot, Denis & Alembert, Jean le Rond d’,
Encyclopédie
(1751–76)
371

Diggers
81

Diogenes
122

Dissenters
363

doctors
see
medicine/physick; under name

Dodwell, Henry,
Epistolatory Discourse, An (1706)
98
–9

Donne, John
80
,
191

Devotions
(1624)
133

Drexelius, Jeremias
100

drinking
235

excessive
236
–7,
399

moderate
239

dualism

Christianity
29

Platonism/Neoplatonism
366

Duke, Isabella
231

Dunton, John
103
–4,
106

Essay proving We shall Know our Friends in Heaven, An
(1698)
103

eating

excessive
235
,
236
,
237
–8,
399

hearty
234
–5

moderate
238
–9

Eccles, John
284

Ecstasy (drug)
16

Edgeworth, Anna
413

Edgeworth, Maria
282

Edgeworth, Richard
375
,
413

Edgeworth, Richard & Maria,
Practical Education
(1802)
263

Edinburgh Review
(1802)
345
,
374
,
470

education theories
160

Helvétius
393

Locke
131
,
262
–3

Rousseau
262

see also
women, education of

education, spread
22
,
125
–6

Elias, Norbert
25

empiricism
64

Engels, Friedrich
390

England, religious factionalism
21
–2

Enlightenment
8
,
15
,
27
,
81

death
213
–14

individualism
402

man, model of
169
–70

progress
172

Scottish
259
,
343
,
345
–6

Epictetus
131

Epicurus
51
,
84
,
139

eschatology
34

apocalyptic prophecy
34
–5

Euripides
4
,
30

Evangelicals
26
–7

Exclusion Crisis (1678–81)
130

exercise
see
body, personal disciplines

existentialism
12

faith/reason debate
362

fashion

and health
241
,
242

oppression, tool of
268
–9

physiognomy, impact on
253
–4

signatures of self and
251

feminism
258
,
267
–8

Ferriar, John
222
–3

treating the mad
315
–16

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
8

fiction/novels

autobiographical
283
–5,
286

confessional
279
–80

dangers of
281
,
282

epistolary
280
,
283
–4

female identity
264
,
265

Lockean philosophy
301

satire
122
,
148
,
278
–9,
463

self-exploratory
9
,
283
–5

sentimental
280

stream-of-consciousness
12

see also
confession

Fielding, Henry
252
,
461

Adventures of Joseph Andrews, The
(1742)
279

Essay on the Characters of Men
(1743)
253

History of Tom Jones, The
(1749)
249
–50,
253
,
254

Journal from This World to the Next, A
(1743)
278
–9

Fifth Monarchists
22
,
81

Filarete, Francesco
245

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
206

food
see
eating

Fordyce, James
262
,
266

Forster, Thomas
215
–16

Fothergill, John
216

Foucault, Michel
14
,
15

Franklin, Benjamin
417

Free Spirits
22

free will
83
–4

psychology of motivation
366
–7

questioned
418
,
424

French Prophets/Camisards
139

French Revolution
10
,
26
,
240
,
368

impact
395
,
411

influence
420

Frend, William
284
–5

Freud, Sigmund/Freudianism
9
,
11
,
13
–14,
30
,
146

anticipated
177
,
381

psyche
12

Fuseli, Henry
271

Gagging Acts (1795)
414

Galen/Galenism
45
,
46
,
66
,
80
,
117

body/mind relationship
48
–9

challenged
224

health & sickness
49
–50

superceded
54

Gall, Franz
468
–9

Galvani, Luigi
215

Garrick, David
176
,
272

Garth, Samuel,
Dispensary
(1699)
122

Gassendi, Pierre
51

Gay, John,
Preliminary Dissertation Concerning… Morality
(1731)
349
–50

Gentleman’s Magazine
(1731–1914)
167
,
214
,
220

‘Casualties’
213

George III, King of England
317

Gibbon, Edward
21
,
179
,
230
,
272

body, relationship with
204
–5

body/mind relationship
199
,
203
–4

caricatured
205

death, fear of
206
–7

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(1776–87)
194
,
201

early years
195
–7,
199
,
200

good fortune
197
–8,
200

health
199
–203,
205

man, concept of
194
–5

Memoirs
(1796)
194
,
195
–8,
204
,
205
,
206
,
207

spiritual beliefs
205
–6

Giddy, Davies
413
,
415

Giercke, Otto von
52

Gillray, James
25

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