Sally Shuttleworth (University of Sheffield)

Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology

Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780521617178
• ISBN-10: 0521617170
• Artikelnr.: 21379694

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Psychological Discourse in the Victorian Era: 1. The art of surveillance
2. The Haworth context
3. Insanity and selfhood
4. Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology
5. The female bodily economy
Part II. Charlotte Brontës 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'
Conclusion
Notes
Index.