This issue, guest edited by Carolyn Burdett, uses a very old form of punctuation – the forward slash - to separate its two relatively modern terms, psychology and aesthetics. The slash signals the intimate, diverse, mutually constitutive, and often contested nature of their relation in the nineteenth century. These essays explore that relation, in the writings of Coleridge and Pater; in the poetry of a psychical researcher and the theatre-going habits of a neurologist; and in museum spaces and gallery experiments.
Articles
Introduction: Psychology/Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century
Carolyn Burdett
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Coleridge on ‘Psychology’ and ‘Aesthetics’
Neil Vickers
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The Museum as 'Dream Space': Psychology and Aesthetic Response in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Victoria Mills
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Subliminal Histories: Psychological Experimentation in the Poetry and Poetics of Frederic W. H. Myers
Helen Groth
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Pater as Psychagogue: Psychology, Aesthetics, Rhetoric
Matthew Beaumont
Issue 12 • 2011 • Psychology/Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century