Rhyming Reason:
The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
Michelle Faubert
The Enlightenment World
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During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a hitherto 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 distinct features of Romantic literature.
Readership
Romantic Poetry, History of Psychology
Contents
Introduction: Romanticism, Versifying Psychologists and the Scottish Enlightenment
Chapter 1: 'Study the Science of your Heart': Cotton, Perfect, and Beattie’s Moral Verse
Chapter 2: The Human Touch: Duncan, Bakewell, Ferriar and Moral Management
Chapter 3: Society’s Sick: “The Nervous Temperament,” Class, and Radical Politics in the Work of Trotter and Beddoes
Chapter 4: The Unelected Legislator: Associationism and Brown’s Subliminal Poetic Lessons
Conclusion: The Foucauldian Wise Man: Thomas Forster as Radical and “Satanic” Psychologist