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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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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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;
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Product details

ISBN
9781138663688
Published
2016-01-21
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
304