Reviews for Wordsworth's Classical Undersong

The average rating for Wordsworth's Classical Undersong based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-27 00:00:00 Susan Eichner This critical work is compelling because of the largely ignored pre-Freudian history of psychology that Johnson resuscitates. His apparent belief in psychic experimentation's power to prove the existence of the soul, well, not so compelling. But from a purely historical standpoint, the back story of the ruthless political strategizing that resulted in Freud's narrowly edging out his predecessors for the academic spotlight- that's what makes this book worth reading. It's also interesting how Johnson outlines the reasons why literary modernism would have never existed without psychoanalytic theory. And neither would much of anything since, if you ask me. But whatever I'm a psych crit nerd. Read this and you can be too!

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-11 00:00:00 Alena Fischi "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."