| Charlotte Brontė and Victorian Psychology Contributor(s): Shuttleworth, Sally (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0521551498 ISBN-13: 9780521551496 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $148.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| LCCN: 2005278193 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.14" W x 9.19" (1.24 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bront as having existed in a historical vacuum. Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes belonging to the Bront s, Sally Shuttleworth explores Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality and insanity, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Bront 's texts operate in relation to this complex framework. Shuttleworth offers a reading of Bront 's fiction informed by a new understanding of the psychological debates of her time. |