Michelle Faubert

Rhyming Reason

The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663688
• ISBN-10: 1138663689
• Artikelnr.: 45330536

Autorenporträt

Michelle Faubert

Inhaltsangabe

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;