Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology
by
Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Title
:
Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology
Author
:
Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
ISBN
:
9780521551496
9780521617178
Personal Author
:
Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Publication Information
:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Physical Description
:
xiv, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 7
Series Title
:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 7
General Note
:
First paperback edition 2004.
Contents
:
Pt. 1. Psychological Discourse in the Victorian Era. 1. The art of surveillance. 2. The Haworth context. 3. Insanity and sellhood. 4. Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology. 5. The female bodily economy -- Pt. 2. Charlotte Bronte's 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'.
Abstract
:
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.
Personal Subject
:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855-Knowledge-Psychology.
Subject Term
:
Psychology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
English fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Psychology in literature.
Self in literature.
Sex in literature.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025423068 | 820.8 S562C 1996 | 1 |