Rhyming Reason:
The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
Michelle Faubert
The Enlightenment World
978 1 85196 955 5: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 697 4
During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a little-known group of psychologist-poets who grew out of the liberal literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas - concepts which were echoed by so many canonical Romantic poets that we now think of them as distinct features of Romantic literature.
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Readership
Romantic Poetry, History of Psychology
Contents
Preface: Psychologist-Poets, Disciplinary Power and the Modern Subject
Introduction: Romantic-Era Psychologist-Poets and the Historical Context of Early British Psychology
1 Erasmus Darwin, James Beattie and Nathaniel Cotton as Pre-Romantic Psychologist-Poets
2 The Human Touch: Thomas Bakewell, Andrew Duncan Sr, John Ferriar and Moral Management
3 Thomas Trotter, William Perfect and Thomas Beddoes: Nervous Illness and Social Hygiene
4 The Unelected Legislator: Associationism and Thomas Brown’s Subliminal Poetic Lessons
Conclusion: Thomas Forster, Phrenology and the Reification of the Disciplines
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