Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology
 Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 7
 Author: Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
 Format: Book
 Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
 Language: English
 Summary:
This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Brontë existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts ranging from local newspaper copy to the medical tomes in the Reverend Patrick Brontë's library, ... (see more)

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Perkins/Bostock Library Stacks PR4169 .S48 1996 c.1 Checked Out  (Due 05-15-2012)
 
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  • xiv, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • ISBN: 0521551498 (hardcover)
  • OCLC Number: 32550349
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-285) and index.
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Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Psychological Discourse in the Victorian Era
  • 1. The art of surveillance
  • 2. The Haworth context
  • 3. Insanity and selfhood
  • 4. Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology
  • 5. The female bodily economy
  • Part II. Charlotte Brontes Fiction
  • 6. The early writings: penetrating power
  • 7. The Professor: 'the art of self-control'
  • 8. Jane Eyre: 'lurid hieroglyphics'
  • 9. Shirley: bodies and markets
  • 10. Villette: 'the surveillance of a sleepless eye'
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
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Title Summary
This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Brontë existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts ranging from local newspaper copy to the medical tomes in the Reverend Patrick Brontë's library, Sally Shuttleworth explores the interpenetration of economic, social, and psychological discourse in the early and mid-nineteenth century, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex, often contradictory, discursive framework. Shuttleworth offers a detailed analysis of Brontë's fiction, informed by a new understanding of Victorian constructions of sexuality and insanity, and the operations of medical and psychological surveillance.
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