Rhyming Reason - The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists

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.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Michelle Faubert

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Faubert, Faubert Michelle
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138663688
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66368-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Enlightenment World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets