{"product_id":"charlotte-bronte-and-victorian-psychology-hardback-9780521551496","title":"Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Hardback) 9780521551496","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCharlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharlotte Brontë's fiction is examined in the context of Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality, and insanity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSally Shuttleworth (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521551496, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 March 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm, 0.655 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'An impressive, densely-argued book.' Journal of Victorian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Psychological Discourse in the Victorian Era: 1. The art of surveillance\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Haworth context\u003cbr\u003e 3. Insanity and selfhood\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology\u003cbr\u003e 5. The female bodily economy\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Charlotte Brontës Fiction: 6. The early writings: penetrating power\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Professor: 'the art of self-control'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Jane Eyre: 'lurid hieroglyphics'\u003cbr\u003e 9. Shirley: bodies and markets\u003cbr\u003e 10. Villette: 'the surveillance of a sleepless eye'\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004632060184,"sku":"9780521551496","price":108.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521551496i_04c50688-3575-4317-bcc4-1cc9257b9a70.jpg?v=1691369556","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/charlotte-bronte-and-victorian-psychology-hardback-9780521551496","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}