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1. Jennifer Ford Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical Imagination
The following chapters explore some of the 'most interesting 5 (Fu 117) features of Coleridge's
explorations of dreams and dreaming. In chapter 2, his observation that dreams occur within
their own unique space, and that time, distance and touch are altered in this dreaming space is
discussed. Other chapters consider Coleridge's deliberations on the language of dreams and his
investigations into the many differing types of dreams and dreaming experiences. His efforts to
understand the origins of his dreams and the peculiar role his body and the imagination played in
them are explored in the later chapters. And it is in these later chapters that the unique role of the
imagination in his dream writings is revealed: the imagination is both poetic and medical and
plays a crucial role in dreaming states. Debates concerning the medical powers of the poetic
imagination throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century are contextualised within
Coleridge's explorations of his dreams and reveal the extent to which the imagination belongs
just as much to medical theory as to poetic theory. What follows is a portrait not only of how
Coleridge interpreted his dreams according to contemporary theories, but also of the fascinating ways
in which he attempted to construct for himself a distinctly personal account of the many still
unresolved mysteries of the shadowy world of dreams and dreaming.
2. Alan Richardson British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind
This is a book about Romantic literary culture and the brain in Great Britain, from the 1790s to around
1830s. It argues both that the pioneering neuroscience of the era manifests a Romantic character,
and that literary Romanticism intersects in numerous and significant ways with the physiological
psychology of the time... The history of science and medicine tells quite a different story. Historians
of neuroscience, of biological psychology, and of neurology concur in viewing the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries as..
3. G.S. Rousseau (editor) The Ferment of Knowledge
In choosing topics, however, we have attempted to give special weight to the most fruitful line of
research over the last twenty years or so: the attempt to locate eighteenth-century natural science in
its fullest philosophical, religious and linguistic context. Hence the opening chapters by Harre,
reassessing major interfaces between Enlightenment epistemology and natural science; by Schaffer,
undermining the modern historiography which has conjured up the imposing edifice of 'natural
philosophy' without adequately relating it to the actual practice of scientific investigation; and by
Shapin, decoding the social messages which are transmitted through the language of eighteenthcentury natural philosophy. The other essays in the volume have been chosen in part to give greater
prominence to the life sciences - to what Carl Pantin has called the 'extensive sciences' - than they are
usually accorded. The reader of these essays may also notice a common thread running through
many of them, one in no way planned for: namely, the way in which so many of the authors
seem to stray from their so called assigned 'science'. Thus, a scholar such as Jacques Roger,
while surveying the biology of the period, expends a good deal of time and energy delving into
its medicine and physiology; and G. S. Rousseau, while ostensibly charting aspects of
Enlightenment psychology finds himself discussing its philosophy and social metaphors. The like is
true for many of the other contributors. While preparing these essays for publication the editors, rather
independently, noticed how typical these amblings are of eighteenth-century science itself. This
seeming deflection into other scientific areas than the author's elected one signals the development of
the idea of organic form in the sciences of the eighteenth century, an idea whose life in that period has
yet to be taken adequately into account in discussions of nineteenth-century science.

4. G.S. Rousseau The Languages of Psyche

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century,"
from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution.

5. G.S. Rousseau Nervous Acts

Between 1970 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of nervous
physiology in literature and history that altered the landscape of eighteenth-century studies. The
essays changed the direction of some Enlightenment thought and configured the rise of sensibility in
new ways. Since then much work has been done which engages, challenges, adopts, and expands on
Rousseau's original discussions ... The introduction surveys nerves from the ancients to the moderns,
and then selects examples in literature where the literary and moral elements of nervous discourse are
especially prominent
6. G.S. Rousseau Enlightenment Borders : Pre- and Post-modern Discourses : Medical, Scientific
First volume of a trilogy of books about the scientific contexts of the European Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment was as much an accumulation of modern discourses as a real historical
phenomenon, and, according to the author of this text, needs to be re-evaluated in relation to the
empirical academic disciplines in which modern practitioners work. This book suggests that the 20thcentury transition from prestructuralism to poststructuralism must be taken into account if we hope to
understand how these Enlightenment discourses have been constructed in our time. Rousseau's views
are grounded in the socio-political confusions of his own time. He undertakes to demonstrate that in
the 20th century we have invented a European Enlightenment according to our own complex relation
to structuralism and modernism.
7. G.S. Rousseau Enlightenment Crossings : Pre- and Post-modern Discourses : Anthropological
This volume weaves together Rousseau's writings on anthropology and its relationship to thinking
about the enlightenment in our time. Rousseau approaches the subject as an eclectic discourse and
invokes an interdisciplinary method grounded in the cross-fertilization of modern academic
disciplines
essays in the borderlands between academic disciplines and crossing over their perilous boundaries.
focusing on anthropological issues (unseen) and on sexual and historical issues

8. Lodi Nauta, Detlev Ptzold - Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern

Times, 2004
In this tradition, with Cicero and Quintilian as its auctoritates, images were used to arouse and
manipulate the emotions. Both traditions had to be revalued in the seventeenth century with the
advent of a mechanist, Cartesian picture of human cognition and the physical world. In spite of their
usual suspicion of imagination, which was commonly associated with illusions, dreams and
fiction, seventeenth-century philosophers realised that the imagination also had its place in
mathematical, scientific and philosophical thinking ... It covers both the philosophicalpsychological as well as the humanist-rhetorical traditions, discussing key figures such as Kilwardby,

Lorenzo Valla, Leon Battista Alberti, Agricola, Gianfrancesco Pico, Erasmus, Paracelsus,
Kepler, Bacon, Suarez, Descartes and Spinoza, but also treating hitherto neglected texts and
writers such as Nicholas of Amsterdam and Jean Lemaire de Belges. By focusing on the evershifting ideas of the imagination as a philosophical and rhetorical tool
9. Yasmin Haskell - Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period,
2011
the role of the imagination in influencing the unborn child and in causing disease even in remote
others. The imagination was implicated in conditions from plague, lovesickness, and anger through to
hysteric and hypochondriac disease - the latter a frightening syndrome of gastric, respiratory, cardiac,
and psychiatric problems believed to be epidemic. The essays in this volume, by established and
emerging scholars from diverse intellectual and cultural traditions, explore Latin and vernacular,
philosophical, medical, poetic, dramatic, epistolary, and juridical sources to expose the tangled
conceptual roots of our modern affective, anxiety and somatoform disorders. They confirm that
controversies about 'mad' versus 'bad', 'real' versus 'psychosomatic' complaints, and the
interdependence of perception, emotion, and physical illness are by no means a monopoly of our
times.

10. Stephen Pender, Nancy S. Struever, Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe, 2012
The papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and
medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. ...the essays collectively
explore the theories and practices, innovations and interventions, that underwrite the shared concerns
of medicine, moral philosophy, and rhetoric: care and consolation, reading, policy, and
rectitude, signinference, selfhood, and autonomy-all developed and refined at the intersection of
areas of inquiry usually thought distinct. From Italy to England, from the sixteenth through to
the mid-eighteenth century, early modern moral philosophers and essayists, rhetoricians and
physicians investigated the passions and persuasion, vulnerability and volubility, theoretical
intervention and practical therapy in the dramas, narratives, and disciplines of public and private cure.

11. Juliet Cummins, David Burchell, Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England, 2007
These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as
avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the contributions of such diverse writers
as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn to contemporary
epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between
the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the development of modern Western
thought.
12. Elinor Schaffer, The Third Culture: Literature and Science, 1998
More recently, C.P.Snow's notion of a possible "third nation" in which the literary and the scientific
culture interact has been explored in new ways...The topics explored, using a range of European
examples drawn from the period of the 17th to the 20th century, include the creative process or
serendipity in science and art; modes of perception and experimental enquiry; the use of figures,
images and narrative forms in science; the representation of science literary works; and "bridging"
exercises such as Naturphilosophie, occult or "soft" sciences, organic aesthetics, and anthropic
arguments.
13. Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary
Shelley to George Elliot, 2004

... romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the preDarwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated
between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. ... Clinicians developed the two-part
history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body.
Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Bronts and George Eliot, alongside biomedical
lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading
employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and
creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine.

14. James Robert Allard, Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body, 2007
James Allard's book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring
the status of the human body during the stunning historical moment that witnessed the emergence of
Romantic literature alongside the professionalization of medical practice. His central subject is the
Poet-Physician, a hybrid figure in the works of the medically trained Keats, Thelwall, and Beddoes,
who embodies the struggles over discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.
15. Marie Mulvey Roberts, Roy Porter, Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century, 1993

16. Todd Wayne Butler, Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-century England, 2008
Todd Butler here proposes a new epistemology of early modern politics, one that sees - as did writers
of the period - human thought as a precursor to political action. By focusing not on reason or the
will but on the imagination, Butler uncovers a political culture in seventeenth-century England that
is far more shifting and multi-polar than has been previously recognized... Through analysis of a wide
variety of seventeenth-century texts, including the writings of Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes,
Caroline Court masques, and the poetry and prose of John Milton... The study also ranges widely
across disciplines, engaging literature alongside both natural and political philosophy. By
emphasizing the human mind rather than human institutions as the primary site of the period's
political struggles
17. Genevieve Guenther, Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance,
2012
In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the
efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking
spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period including Spenser,
Marlowe, and Shakespeare negotiated this troubling link between poetry and magic in their attempts
to transform readers and audiences with the power of art... Through analyses of texts ranging from
sermons and theological treatises to medical tracts and legal documents...

18. Sharon Ruston, Literature and Science, 2008

Ranging from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century science fiction and literary theory, and using
different texts, genres, and methodologies, the essays collected here demonstrate the complexity of
literature, science, and the interfaces between them.
19. Brian Vickers Ed., Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, 1984
The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history
of science: To what extent did the occult 'sciences' (alchemy, astrology, numerology, and natural
magic) contribute to the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance? These studies of major scientists
(Kepler, Bacon, Mersenne, and Newton) and of occultists (Dee, Fludd, and Cardano)... hitherto the
relationship has been too crudely stated as a movement 'from magic to science'.
The interaction between rational and occult forms of thought
20. Elizabeth Spiller, Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge,
15801670,
Critics of the early modern period have recognized how closely allied the inventions of literature
are with those of science.
The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a
shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary
texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge
production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because
it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between
literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and
the book, science studies, and the history of academic disciplines.
21. Jackson, Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing, 1999
Jackson's narrative ... moves from ancient medical, philosophical, and religious texts to modern
medical and psychoanalytic works while, at the same time, creating a remarkably synthetic account ...
First defining the meaning of consolation and pointing out its central role in most forms of
psychological healing, Jackson traces its use from antiquity to the modern period. This leads to a farranging discussion of consolatory literature from ancient Greece, the early Christian consolatio,
Renaissance humanist physicians, sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century medical and
Christian works, and nineteenth-century medical and psychiatric (especially French) texts.