Publication

2004 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

72,250 words, Guess

Page Count

289 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780521617178
  • ISBN-100521617170
  • ISBN-100521551498
  • ISBN-139780521551496
  • Goodreads221069', '1649440
and 4 more
  • LibraryThing2182770
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005278193
  • Better World Books9780521617178
  • Open LibraryOL3435360M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.7
  • LCCPR4169 .S48 2004

Description

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
  • 7

Other Editions

  • Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychologyCambridge University Press2004

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