Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology

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The work Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology

Statement of responsibility

Sally Shuttleworth

Title variation

Charlotte Brontë & Victorian Psychology

Creator

• Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-

Subject

• Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
• Psychology in literature
• Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Knowledge | Psychology
• Sex in literature
• Self in literature

Language

eng

Summary

This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Brontë 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 Brontë'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 Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex, often contradictory, discursive framework. Shuttleworth offers a detailed analysis of Brontë'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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• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 7

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

7