Royalist Historiography in T. J. Horsley Curties's Ethelwina, Or The House of Fitz-Auburne (1799)

Abstract

Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul, The Soul's self-symbol, its image of itself.Its own yet not itself--(Fragment, ST Coleridge, undated [1810?]) In the history of ideas about the relationship between mind and body, On the issue of human identity, these sciences share a foundational premise, have comparable aims and have adopted similar methodological approaches.These sciences conceive of the body as intimately linked to, indeed inseparable from, the mind and/or the 'self.' They are underwritten by the belief that the body shapes-if not determines-character, behaviour and intelligence. From this premise, it follows that the body conveys information about such things as pathology, moral depravity, sexual deviance and criminal predisposition. There is great diversity between these sciences and within their specialized branches, yet