In his book Observations on the Zoonomia of Erasmus Darwin MD, Thomas Brown included a critical chapter on the analysis of madness proposed by Darwin in Zoonomia. Although neither Darwin nor Brown are ground-breaking in their views on madness, they illustrate the transitional accounts of madness that were being entertained at the end of the eighteenth century, particularly among writers who had studied at Edinburgh University.
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Andrews, Jonathan;
Scull, Andrew T.;
(2002)
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London with the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book
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Goldstein, Amanda Jo;
(2011)
“Sweet Science”: Romantic Materialism and the New Sciences of Life
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Wade, Nicholas J.;
(2010)
The Darwins and Wells: From Revolution to Evolution
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Smith, Christopher Upham Murray;
Arnott, Robert;
(2005)
The Genius of Erasmus Darwin
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Wilson, Philip K.;
(2007)
Drink, Dames and Disease: Erasmus Darwin on Inheritance
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Sam George;
(2014)
Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education
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Dahlia Porter;
(2018)
Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism
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Kleinneiur, Joann;
(2007)
The Chemical Revolution in British Poetry, 1772--1822
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King-Hele, Desmond;
(2002)
Erasmus Darwin's Improved Design for Steering Carriages---And Cars
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Marshall, Ashley;
(2007)
Erasmus Darwin contra David Hume
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Elliott, Paul A.;
(2010)
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England
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Budge, Gavin;
(2007)
Erasmus Darwin and the Poetics of William Wordsworth: “Excitement without the Application of Gross and Violent Stimulants”
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Elliott, Paul;
(2003)
Erasmus Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and the Origins of the Evolutionary Worldview in British Provincial Scientific Culture, 1770--1850
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Page, Michael R.;
(2012)
The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science, Evolution, and Ecology
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Flaherty, Niall O';
(2010)
The Rhetorical Strategy of William Paley's Natural Theology (1802): Part 2, William Paley's Natural Theology and the Challenge of Atheism
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List, Julia;
(2009)
Erasmus Darwin's Beautification of the Sublime: Materialism, Religion and the Reception of The Economy of Vegetation in the Early 1790s
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Andresen, Christopher Schroeder;
German E Berrios;
(2020)
‘My insanity in the year 1783’, by C.S. Andresen (1801)
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Leonard Smith;
Timothy Peters;
(2017)
‘Details on the Establishment of Doctor Willis, for the Cure of Lunatics’ (1796)
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Berrios, G. E.;
(2014)
“Febrile Anxiety”, by Robert James (1745)
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Paoletti, Cristina;
(2011)
Causes as Proximate Events: Thomas Brown and the Positivist Interpretation of Hume on Causality
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