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theatre, dangers of
272

see also
Calvinism/Calvinists

Pyrrhonism
64

Pythagoras/Pythagoreans
28
,
29
,
31
,
66
,
136

Quakers
22
,
92
,
306

insane, treatment of
318

satirised
158

Quarle, Francis,
Emblems
(1635)
39

Quarterly Review
470

race
248
–9

Raleigh, Walter
169

Ranters
22
,
81
,
306

Raphael,
School of Athens
(1510–11)
300

rational/irrational
30
–31

rationalist philosophy
23
,
55
,
92
,
393

and faith
90

origins
21

satirized
170

realism
141

reason
63
–4

Reid, Thomas
313
,
347

religious enthusiasm/fanaticism
157
–8,
159
,
307

res cogitans
7
,
23

res extensa
7

respiration, artificial
216

Resurrection
see
afterlife

Reynolds, Frances
178

Reynolds, Joshua
167
,
175
,
177
–8,
256
,
453

Richardson, Samuel
283
,
461

Clarissa
(1748)
280

Pamela
(1740)
280

Ritson, Joseph
239

Robertson, William,
History of America
(1777)
259
–60

Robinson, Nicholas
306

New System of the Spleen, A
(1729)
310

Rochester, John Wimot, Earl of
347

Roebuck, J. H.
395

Romanticism
9
,
10
–11,
15
,
319
,
370

childhood, idealization of
242

imagination, cult of
473

inspiration
280

self, ideas about
9
,
10
–11,
283

suicide cult
226

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
8
–9

Confessions
(1782–9)
8
,
280

Émile
(1762)
262
,
280
,
375

influence
419

Julie
280

sexism
266

on women
262

Rowe, Elizabeth Singer,
Friendship in Death
(1728)
106

Royal College of Physicians
224

Royal Humane Society
214
,
217

Royal Society (1662)
52
,
84
,
88
–9,
92
,
349

Ryle, Gilbert
14

Sade, Donatien Alphonse, Marquis de
9

Saducees
35
,
88
n salvation, secularization
474

Sanctorian Balance
123

Sanctorio, Sanctorio
124

De Statica Medicina
(1614)
122
–3

Sartre, Jean-Paul
12

satire
see
fiction/novels

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von
10

Schimmelpenninck, Mrs
379

scholasticism
83
,
85
,
89

Schopenhauer, Artur
11

science

atheism and
92

empiricism
64

experimental
90

God and
90

self and
80

social order and
82
–3

Scriblerus, Martin
159
–66

Scriblerus Club (Arbuthnot, Pope, Swift et al.)
159

Seager, John
102

Seneca
4
,
131

sensibility
241
,
243

sickly
401

Seward, Miss
186

sexual hypocrisy
144
–6

Seymour (
pseud.,
Sir John Hill),
On the Management of Children
232

Shaftesbury, Lord, Anthony Ashley Cooper
116
,
146
,
147
,
152
,
203
,
253

body, on
135
–6,
139

challenged
142

Characteristcks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
139
–40

God, concept of
140

parodied
141

philosophy
131
–2

social distinctions
138

see also
identity/self; man/human beings

Shakers
306

Shakespeare, William
6
,
12
,
14
,
63
,
191
,
212
,
272

Shaw, Peter,
Wine Preferable to Water
(1724)
235

Sheffield, Lord
201
,
202
,
230

Shelley, Mary,
Frankenstein
(1818)
216

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
10
,
466

Vindication of a Natural Diet, A
(1813)
239

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
School for Scandal, The
(1777)
250
,
252
,
278

Sherlock, William,
Practical Discourse Concerning Death, A
(1690)
212

Short, Thomas
233

Shower, John,
Heaven and Hell
(1700)
100
–101

Siamese twins
107
,
164
–6

Sidney, Philip
410

Sidney, Sabrina
376

signatures, doctrine of
245
–6

Skinner, B. F.
13

Sloane, Hans
349

Small, Thomas
375

Smiles, Samuel
390

Smith, Adam
221
,
261

competitions
386

Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
343
–4

progress of the mind
398

Wealth of Nations
(1776)
9
–10

Smith, Charlotte
282

Emmeline
(1788)
279

Young Philosopher, The
(1798)
280

Smollett, Tobias,
Humphrey Clinker
(1774)
230

social conduct

see
manners & morals socio-cultural change
22
–3

Socrates
4
,
6
,
30
,
63
,
300
,
422

soul
31

Sophocles
4
,
30

soul
28

afterlife
21

Aristotelian
32
–3

autonomy
60

Christian
4
,
26
,
37
,
80
,
147
,
370

dignity
172

evolution
372

Hobbes on
81
–2

immaterial
24
,
36
,
80
,
162
–4,
347

immortal
18
,
31
,
35
,
102
,
103
–4,
127
–8,
147
,
162
–4,
345
,
458
–60,
461
,
470
–71,
473

Judaism 19n location
161
,
162
,
168
,
169

material
24
,
367

mechanical model
56
–7

mortal
27
,
81
–2,
97
–9,
367

origin
165
–6

Platonic/Neoplatonic
31
,
85
,
127
,
370

Priestley on
367

propagation & transmission 37n rational
58
,
59
–60,
65
,
168
–9

reductionism
371
–2

scientific proof
93

Scriblerans on
162
–4

sensible
168

separate, evidence
426

Swift on
157
–8

tripartite
32

soul-language 33n

souls/spirits, animating
57
,
58
–9,
80

Southey, Robert
279
,
404

on Owen
391
–2

political activism
413
–14

Southey, Tom
417

Spectator
(1711)

club
463

hypochondriac
233

identity/self
345

manners & morals
254

see also
Addison & Steele; Steele, Richard

Spencer, Herbert
13

Spenser, Edmund
410

St Augustine of Hippo
14
,
17
,
36
–7,
39

Confessions
4
,
35
,
273

St Jerome
281

St Luke’s (asylum)
314

St Paul
see
body, St Paul on Stahl,

Georg Ernst
54
,
351

Steele, Richard, temperance
113
,
237
;
see also

Addison & Steele;
Spectator

Stephens, Joanna
349

Sterne, Elizabeth
287

Sterne, Laurence
240
,
253
–4

health
286
–7

influences
303
–4

Sentimental Journey, A
(1768)
283

see also Tristram Shandy

Sterne, Lydia
287

Stewart, Dugald

psychology
313
,
343
–5

Stillingfleet, Edward,
The Bishop of Worcester’s Answer
(1697)
95

Stoicism/Stoics
20
,
31
,
33
,
131
,
138
,
472
–3

Stubbs, Philip
96

Anatomy of Abuses, The
(1583)
133

Sturm und Drang
10

subjectivity
24

suicide
225
–6

supernatural phenomena
218
,
219
–20

investigation, scientific
88
–93

Surrealism
12

Swedenborg, Emanuel/Swedenborgians
105
,
434

Economy of the Animal Kingdom, The
(1740–41)
105
–6

Swift, Jonathan
16
,
22
,
25
,
123
,
177
,
263

‘Beautiful Young Nymph going to Bed, A’ (1731)
150

Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
(1710)
93

Gulliver’s Travels
(1727)
151
–6,
466

homo capax rationis
305

‘Lady’s Dressing Room, The’ (1730)
150

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