Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era PsychologistsDuring 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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RomanticEra PsychologistPoets and the Historical Context | |
Erasmus Darwin James Beattie and Nathaniel Cotton as PreRomantic | |
Thomas Bakewell Andrew Duncan Sr John Ferriar | |
Nervous Illness | |
Associationism and Thomas Browns | |
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