Victorian Psychology and British Culture 1850-1880
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 August 2000
- ISBN 9780198122838
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages365 pages
- Size 242x163x24 mm
- Weight 665 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 figure 0
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Short description:
This book offers a history of the interdisciplinary development of Victorian psychology alongside detailed studies of three leading writers: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, and G. H. Lewes. Examining work in several different fields, including evolutionary theory, philosophy, literature, and the bio-medical sciences, it sets the development of psychology in the context of the social and intellectual pressures of the time. The book includes detailed analyses of the work of George Eliot, whose writing is saturated with ideas developed alongside those of the great psychologists who formed her circle.
MoreLong description:
Victorian psychology was fiercely controversial and contested by parties representing the whole span of nineteenth-century opinion. It developed from a theory of the soul to one which understood the human mind as a part of the natural world. In its most advanced forms it embraced new evolutionary ideas, and was considered by its opponents to be a bastard child of materialism. But this was a genuinely interdisciplinary field, and bio-medical scientists, philosophers, novelists, poets, theologians, social commentators, and doctors fought for the ascendancy of their ideas. The emerging discipline reveals the turbulence of Victorian cultural debate, for psychology carried the weight of the periods concerns and articulated some of its most advanced thinking.
This book examines psychological theory as it appeared to the Victorians themselves, tracing the social and intellectual forces in play in its formation; it also relates these nineteenth-century ideas to twentieth-century developments in psychological investigation. Part One outlines the general debate. Part Two concentrates on three central figures: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, and G. H. Lewes. It assesses their contributions in the context of the public debates which shaped their work. This is the first detailed study of the development of a mature body of complex interdisciplinary theory often neglected by modern commentators. It also provides one of the first thorough examinations of the work of G. H. Lewes, which has been greatly underestimated.
Distinctive features of this study include its cross-referral between work in different disciplines, and a series of analyses of the work of George Eliot, whose writing is saturated with ideas developed alongside those of the great psychologists who formed her circle.
undoubtedly useful in deepening the reader's understanding of psychology in this period
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I Generalities: A discrimination of types of psychological theory
The discourse of the soul
The discourse of philosophy
The discourse of physiology in general biology
The discourse of medicine
II Particulars: Three writers in their times and contexts
Alexander Bain and the new psychology of the higher faculties
Herbert Spencer and the beginnings of evolutionary psychology
G. H. Lewes: History, mind, and language
Bibliography
Index
