Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology
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Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology by Sally Shuttleworth
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.
'Invokes primary sources to explode any persistent myths that Brontë lived in a cultural vacuum' New Scientist
'An excellent, illuminating book.' Rick Rylance
'[This] has made a major contribution to Brontë studies and indicated the way forward for further studies of Brontë's work within Victorian cultural debate.' Christine Alexander, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal
'An assured and original contributuion to the ever-expanding field of Brontë scholarship.' Anarchist Studies
'An impressive, densely-argued book.' Journal of Victorian Culture
'An excellent, illuminating book.' Rick Rylance
'[This] has made a major contribution to Brontë studies and indicated the way forward for further studies of Brontë's work within Victorian cultural debate.' Christine Alexander, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal
'An assured and original contributuion to the ever-expanding field of Brontë scholarship.' Anarchist Studies
'An impressive, densely-argued book.' Journal of Victorian Culture
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521617178 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521617170 |
| Title | Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology |
| Author | Sally Shuttleworth |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2004-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
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