Victorian Psychology and British Culture 1850-1880
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...
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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.
Prelude1Introduction: Looking Round Corners5Pt. 1Generalities: A Discrimination of Types of Psychological Theory1The Discourse of the Soul212The Discourse of Philosophy403The Discourse of Physiology in General Biology704The Discourse of Medicine110Pt. 2Particulars: Three Writers in their Times and Contexts5Alexander Bain and the New Psychology of the Higher Faculties147Bain, Mill, and the Politics of Psychological Theory in the Mid-Century150Bain and the Development of Physiological Associationism167Bain's Theory of the Will1946Herbert Spencer and the Beginnings of Evolutionary Psychology203Changes in Models of the Mind in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century203Spencer's Psychology: From Associationism to Evolutionary Theory212Spencer and the Religious Mind: The Changing Response to Psychological Theory228Epistemology, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Idealist Critique2407G. H. Lewes: History, Mind, and Language251Problems of Text and Context251Mind, Metaphor, Biology, and Man271Epistemology and Ontology in Problems of Life and Mind290Lewes, Darwin, and Lamarck299Problems of Mind and Conceptual Organization305Ideal Futures: Lewes's Convictions and Appropriations311Bibliography331Index351
