4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception

Stephanson, Raymond

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“…Yet sensibility, as Sterne described, had nerves, spirits and sexuality blurring the boundaries between body and mind; this is 'the connectedness of the male author's head and groin' that Tristram Shandy both examines and satirises. 116 The themes of sexual feelings, passions and behaviours integral to Sterne's sentimental narratives responded to those discussions about nerves, senses, genitals and the mind that were seriously studied in medical circles for the preceding hundred years. For example, Sterne's sexually frugal character Walter Shandy is acutely aware of the link between sexuality and rationality.…”

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Body, Mind and Spirits: The Physiology of Sexuality in the Culture of Sensibility

Wagner¹

2015

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Current scholarship recognises both physiology and sexuality as central elements of the eighteenth‐century culture of sensibility. But scholars have yet really to explore the physiology of sexuality. Through an interdisciplinary approach this article demonstrates the profound resonance of late seventeenth‐century physiological discussions about nerves and animal spirits as the basis for understandings about sexuality and sensibility. Those discussions particularly emphasised specific ways that sex affected the sensible body and rational mind. The physiology of animal spirits – and associated ideas about the body and mind – would underpin representations of sexuality in the art and literature of sensibility in the mid‐eighteenth century.

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Section: Reading Sex and Spiritsmentioning

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Body, Mind and Spirits: The Physiology of Sexuality in the Culture of Sensibility

Wagner¹

2015

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception

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Body, Mind and Spirits: The Physiology of Sexuality in the Culture of Sensibility

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