Rhyming Reason
The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2009
304 pages
978-1-85196-697-4 (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
ISBN-13
978-1-85196-697-4 (9781851966974)
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Content
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
