Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology / Sally Shuttleworth.
Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology / Sally Shuttleworth.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Date
1996.
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N823.8/B869/60
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English
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xiv, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 Prof...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1996.
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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 Patric...
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Charlotte Brontë and Victorian psychology / Sally Shuttleworth.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 7.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-285) and index.
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N823.8/B869/60
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74VvZBOWVlod
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvZBOWVlod
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ISBN
0521551498 (hard cover)
9780521551496 (hardcover)
0521551498 (hardcover)
9780521551496 (hard cover)
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823.8
8238
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991004763149702626
