Rhyming Reason : The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- The Enlightenment World Series .
- The Enlightenment World Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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.