UID:
almafu_9959244614102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-58222-6
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0-511-00101-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 7
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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'.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-61717-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-55149-8
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582226
