Read Flesh in the Age of Reason Online
Authors: Roy Porter
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theatre, dangers of
272
see also
Calvinism/Calvinists
Pyrrhonism
64
Pythagoras/Pythagoreans
28
,
29
,
31
,
66
,
136
insane, treatment of
318
satirised
158
Quarle, Francis,
Emblems
(1635)
39
Quarterly Review
470
race
248
–9
Raleigh, Walter
169
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
religious enthusiasm/fanaticism
157
–8,
159
,
307
res extensa
7
respiration, artificial
216
Resurrection
see
afterlife
Reynolds, Frances
178
Reynolds, Joshua
167
,
175
,
177
–8,
256
,
453
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
childhood, idealization of
242
imagination, cult of
473
inspiration
280
suicide cult
226
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
8
–9
influence
419
Julie
280
sexism
266
on women
262
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer,
Friendship in Death
(1728)
106
Royal College of Physicians
224
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
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
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
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
Shelley, Mary,
Frankenstein
(1818)
216
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
Sidney, Philip
410
Sidney, Sabrina
376
signatures, doctrine of
245
–6
Skinner, B. F.
13
Sloane, Hans
349
Small, Thomas
375
Smiles, Samuel
390
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
soul
31
soul
28
afterlife
21
Aristotelian
32
–3
autonomy
60
dignity
172
evolution
372
Hobbes on
81
–2
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
mechanical model
56
–7
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
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
St Jerome
281
St Luke’s (asylum)
314
St Paul
see
body, St Paul on Stahl,
Steele, Richard, temperance
113
,
237
;
see also
Addison & Steele;
Spectator
Stephens, Joanna
349
Sterne, Elizabeth
287
health
286
–7
influences
303
–4
Sentimental Journey, A
(1768)
283
see also Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Lydia
287
Stewart, Dugald
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