Anne C Vila
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne C Vila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Vila |
| SIGNATURE | VILA A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0951-0392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How the Jansenist convulsionnaires Passed into Nineteenth-Century French Fiction: The Case of Léon Hennique's Elisabeth Couronneau
Few religious groups made as distinctive a mark on nineteenth-century French culture as the eighteenth-century convulsionnaires , a fringe group of the dissident reform movement within Catholicism known as Jansenism. The epicenter of their movement was the tomb of deacon François de Pâris, whom adepts viewed as a saint capable of carrying out miraculous cures and divine justice against the repressive Unigenitus Bull. The Convulsionaries both capt…
Du tabac pour le mort: Une histoire de la réanimation
Du tabac pour le mort focuses on a practice that, however strange to modern eyes, was integral to the birth of medical reanimation: reviving those who had drowned by injecting tobacco smoke into their rectums. Starting in the 1730s, an energetic chorus of scientists, doctors and humanitarians championed this technique as the most effective method for bringing such victims back to life. Their campaign was so successful that, by the 1770s, the rive…
Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the "suffering scholar" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.
Singular Devices: Minds at Work from Montesquieu to Diderot
Eighteenth-century descriptions of esprit and the persona of the thinker often insisted on the interplay of “le physique et le moral.” This idea was often illustrated through analogies that compared the embodied mind to a device that operated via fine-tuned response and motion. Whereas physicians used such analogies to warn scholars about the health dangers of overstudy, other authors deployed them for positive, heuristic purposes. The two main e…
The Philosophe’s Stomach
“The stomach rules the brain”: with that pithy maxim, Voltaire summed up much of the spirit of scholarly endeavor in the French Enlightenment. The stomach did, indeed, seem to rule the life of the mind in eighteenth-century France, a time when social pleasures like fine dining were central to the effort to redefine the modern intellectual as a public-spirited, convivial fellow eager to partake of worldly life.l Nowhere, it seems, did the French l…
A Vital History
Sex, Procreation, and the Scholarly Life from Tissot to Balzac
The French Enlightenment was an era that prided itself on its great thoughts and thinkersBor, at least, on its ability to appreciate the great thinkers of the past and determine how to produce more in the future. Yet it was also a time when study and reflection were tinged with darker undertones: although the meditative, poetic temperament was not yet tied to madness and degeneracy (as it would become in the following century), it nonetheless mar…
Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850
These essays on the shifting content and value attached to 'enthusiasm' treat a particular historical question and at the same time pose a general challenge to our methodological expectations. The contributors (Peter Fenves, Jan Goldstein, Lawrence E. Klein, Jon Mee, J.G.A. Pocock, Mary D. Sheriff, and Anthony J. La Vopa) study the discourses of religion, psychology, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy in which 'enthusiasm' figured as a key term…
Enlightenment and Pathology. Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France
Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau
Anne C. Vila, Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau, Yale French Studies, No. 92, Exploring the Conversible World: Text and Sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment (1997), pp. 88-101
Sex and Sensibility: Pierre Roussel's Systeme physique et moral de la femme
Research Article| October 01 1995 Sex and Sensibility: Pierre Roussel's Système physique et moral de la femme Anne C. Vila Anne C. Vila Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1995) 52: 76–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928700 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cit…
The Body and the French Revolution. Sex, Class and Political Culture
Sensible Diagnostics in Diderot's La Religieuse
It is by now virtually a truism among eighteenth-century specialists that Denis Diderot took an intense interest in the medical theory of his day, and that this interest somehow seeped throughout his works. It is thus hardly innovative for critics to scan the corpus of selected medical treatises considered required reading by Diderot (according to his notes to the Elements de physiologic) for possible conceptual or lexical clues to the peculiar b…
The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century
L'Ardeur et la galanterie
La Pensee hierarchique et l'evolution
Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth Century France
Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth Century France
Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau
Anne C. Vila, Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau, Yale French Studies, No. 92, Exploring the Conversible World: Text and Sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment (1997), pp. 88-101
Sex, Procreation, and the Scholarly Life from Tissot to Balzac
The French Enlightenment was an era that prided itself on its great thoughts and thinkersBor, at least, on its ability to appreciate the great thinkers of the past and determine how to produce more in the future. Yet it was also a time when study and reflection were tinged with darker undertones: although the meditative, poetic temperament was not yet tied to madness and degeneracy (as it would become in the following century), it nonetheless mar…
Sex and Sensibility: Pierre Roussel's Systeme physique et moral de la femme
Research Article| October 01 1995 Sex and Sensibility: Pierre Roussel's Système physique et moral de la femme Anne C. Vila Anne C. Vila Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1995) 52: 76–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928700 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cit…
Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth Century France
La Pensee hierarchique et l'evolution
L'Ardeur et la galanterie
The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century
The Body and the French Revolution. Sex, Class and Political Culture
Sensible Diagnostics in Diderot's La Religieuse
It is by now virtually a truism among eighteenth-century specialists that Denis Diderot took an intense interest in the medical theory of his day, and that this interest somehow seeped throughout his works. It is thus hardly innovative for critics to scan the corpus of selected medical treatises considered required reading by Diderot (according to his notes to the Elements de physiologic) for possible conceptual or lexical clues to the peculiar b…
Sex and Sensibility: Pierre Roussel's Systeme physique et moral de la femme
Research Article| October 01 1995 Sex and Sensibility: Pierre Roussel's Système physique et moral de la femme Anne C. Vila Anne C. Vila Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1995) 52: 76–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928700 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cit…
Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau
Anne C. Vila, Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau, Yale French Studies, No. 92, Exploring the Conversible World: Text and Sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment (1997), pp. 88-101
Enlightenment and Pathology. Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France
Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850
These essays on the shifting content and value attached to 'enthusiasm' treat a particular historical question and at the same time pose a general challenge to our methodological expectations. The contributors (Peter Fenves, Jan Goldstein, Lawrence E. Klein, Jon Mee, J.G.A. Pocock, Mary D. Sheriff, and Anthony J. La Vopa) study the discourses of religion, psychology, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy in which 'enthusiasm' figured as a key term…
Sex, Procreation, and the Scholarly Life from Tissot to Balzac
The French Enlightenment was an era that prided itself on its great thoughts and thinkersBor, at least, on its ability to appreciate the great thinkers of the past and determine how to produce more in the future. Yet it was also a time when study and reflection were tinged with darker undertones: although the meditative, poetic temperament was not yet tied to madness and degeneracy (as it would become in the following century), it nonetheless mar…
A Vital History
The Philosophe’s Stomach
“The stomach rules the brain”: with that pithy maxim, Voltaire summed up much of the spirit of scholarly endeavor in the French Enlightenment. The stomach did, indeed, seem to rule the life of the mind in eighteenth-century France, a time when social pleasures like fine dining were central to the effort to redefine the modern intellectual as a public-spirited, convivial fellow eager to partake of worldly life.l Nowhere, it seems, did the French l…
Singular Devices: Minds at Work from Montesquieu to Diderot
Eighteenth-century descriptions of esprit and the persona of the thinker often insisted on the interplay of “le physique et le moral.” This idea was often illustrated through analogies that compared the embodied mind to a device that operated via fine-tuned response and motion. Whereas physicians used such analogies to warn scholars about the health dangers of overstudy, other authors deployed them for positive, heuristic purposes. The two main e…
Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the "suffering scholar" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.
Du tabac pour le mort: Une histoire de la réanimation
Du tabac pour le mort focuses on a practice that, however strange to modern eyes, was integral to the birth of medical reanimation: reviving those who had drowned by injecting tobacco smoke into their rectums. Starting in the 1730s, an energetic chorus of scientists, doctors and humanitarians championed this technique as the most effective method for bringing such victims back to life. Their campaign was so successful that, by the 1770s, the rive…
How the Jansenist convulsionnaires Passed into Nineteenth-Century French Fiction: The Case of Léon Hennique's Elisabeth Couronneau
Few religious groups made as distinctive a mark on nineteenth-century French culture as the eighteenth-century convulsionnaires , a fringe group of the dissident reform movement within Catholicism known as Jansenism. The epicenter of their movement was the tomb of deacon François de Pâris, whom adepts viewed as a saint capable of carrying out miraculous cures and divine justice against the repressive Unigenitus Bull. The Convulsionaries both capt…
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