Rhyming Reason

Rhyming Reason

Author: Michelle Faubert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 131731431X

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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.


Shelley and Vitality

Shelley and Vitality

Author: S. Ruston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-04-08

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 023050518X

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Shelley and Vitality reassesses Percy Shelley's engagement with early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernethy and William Lawrence. Sharon Ruston offers new biographical information to link Shelley to a medical circle and explores the ways in which Shelley exploits the language and ideas of vitality. Major canonical works are reconsidered to address Shelley's politicised understanding of contemporary scientific discourse.