Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521617170
ISBN-13
9780521617178
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 16th, 2004
Print length
308 Pages
Weight
462 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
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Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes, Sally Shuttleworth explores Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality, and insanity, and offers a reading of Brontë's fiction informed by a new understanding of the complex, often contradictory, psychological debates of her time.
This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Bronte 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 Bronte'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 Bronte's texts operate in relation to this complex, often contradictory, discursive framework. Shuttleworth offers a detailed analysis of Bronte'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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