Rhyming Reason

The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-85196-955-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: The Enlightenment World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faubert, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle Faubert