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Charlotte Bront�e and Victorian psychology / Sally Shuttleworth.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 7.Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511582226
  • 0511582226
  • 0585099219
  • 9780585099217
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Charlotte Bront�e and Victorian psychology.DDC classification:
  • 823/.8 20
LOC classification:
  • PR4169 .S48 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- pt. 1. Psychological discourse in the Victorian era. The art of surveillance -- The Haworth context -- Insanity and selfhood -- Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology -- The female bodily economy -- pt. 2. Charlotte Bront�e's fiction. The early writings: penetrating power -- The Professor: 'the art of self-control' -- Jane Eyre: 'lurid hieroglyphics' -- Shirley: bodies and markets -- Villette: 'the surveillance of a sleepless eye' -- Conclusion.
Review: "This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bronte as having 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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-285) and index.

Introduction -- pt. 1. Psychological discourse in the Victorian era. The art of surveillance -- The Haworth context -- Insanity and selfhood -- Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology -- The female bodily economy -- pt. 2. Charlotte Bront�e's fiction. The early writings: penetrating power -- The Professor: 'the art of self-control' -- Jane Eyre: 'lurid hieroglyphics' -- Shirley: bodies and markets -- Villette: 'the surveillance of a sleepless eye' -- Conclusion.

Print version record.

"This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bronte as having 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."--Jacket.

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