
Rhyming Reason
The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
Michelle Faubert(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-138-66368-8 (ISBN)
Description
During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-66368-8 (9781138663688)
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Person
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Content
Chapter 1 Introduction: Romantic-era Psychologist-Poets and the Historical Context of Early British Psychology; Chapter 1a Erasmus Darwin, James Beattie and Nathaniel Cotton as Pre-Romantic Psychologist-Poets; Chapter 2 The Human Touch: Thomas Bakewell, Andrew Duncan Sr, John Ferriar and Moral Management; Chapter 3 Thomas Trotter, William Perfect and Thomas Beddoes: Nervous Illness and Social Hygiene; Chapter 4 The Unelected Legislator: Associationism and Thomas Brown's Subliminal Poetic Lessons; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Thomas Forster, Phrenology and the Reification of the Disciplines;