By Ekbert Faas
Here Ekbert Faas examines the advanced interrelationships one of the fields of early psychiatry, poetry, and aesthetics via an in-depth learn of the Victorian dramatic monologue and its Romantic antecedents. Discussing the paintings of over thirty significant and minor poets, he makes a speciality of what Victorian critics considered as an unheard of mental institution of poetry on the topic of early psychiatry and rooted within the poetic "science of emotions" (Wordsworth). This wide historic point of view allows Faas to redefine our present terminology concerning the dramatic monologue and to record the level to which early psychiatry formed the poetry, poetics, and normal mind set of the Victorians. "In the 19th century, English poetry started to discover the psyche in methods contemporaries well-known as new. Wordsworth and Coleridge pioneered what Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning endured. Professor Faas painstakingly records this, and reactions to it, almost about simultaneous psychiatric paintings. Fascinating."--Encounter
Originally released in 1989.
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Prichard also gave the concept the strongly moralistic bias, which remained its inquisitorial hallmark throughout the mid-Victorian era. "64 Not surprisingly, Prichard finds many individuals "of a singular, wayward, and eccentric character . . "6' Were the increases of insanity related to this new witch-hunt attitude? Whatever the answer, most Victorian alienists agreed with Prichard. To J. Bower Harrison, writing in 1850, insanity is "far from showing itself merely in hallucinations and illusions, as is commonly supposed.
H. " 2 ' The general enthusiasm even took hold among some of the major figures of the century. One of the first was Charles Dickens who, in the company of his 38 THE NEW MENTAL SCIENCE friend Cruikshank, attended the demonstrations at University College hospital. "I have closely watched Dr. " 26 Be fore long, the novelist turned ardent magnetiser himself. Another fa mous "believer, in spite of papa,"ϊη was Elizabeth Barrett. Other lay mesmerists of note include Alfred Tennyson and Harriet Martineau.
2 Two articles in Fraser's Magazine show the scope such theorizing had reached by 1844—45. The first "convict[s] Mesmer and his followers of having borrowed the philosophy and researches of the Hermetic school of Paracelcus, Van Helmont, Kirchner, Goclenius, Dee, and Fludd"; 3 3 39 THE NEW MENTAL SCIENCE the second, even more ingeniously, relates the new science to subjects as diverse as witchcraft, Hindu religion, and Persian mysticism. Hypnotism, as a result, is found to have been practiced by the ancient Sufis, Hindoos, and other religious groups.