Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology Hardback: 7 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 7) - Hardcover

Shuttleworth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521551498 ISBN 13: 9780521551496

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Críticas:

'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

Contraportada:

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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521551498
• ISBN 13: 9780521551496
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308