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Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology »

Authors: Sally Shuttleworth, Gillian Beer
ISBN-13: 9780521617178, ISBN-10: 0521617170
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Charlotte Brontë's fiction is examined in the context of Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality, and insanity.

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Psychological Discourse in the Victorian Era
1	The art of surveillance	9
2	The Haworth context	19
3	Insanity and sellhood	34
4	Reading the mind: physiognomy and phrenology	57
5	The female bodily economy	71
Pt. 2	Charlotte Bronte's Fiction
6	The early writings: penetrating power	101
7	The Professor: 'the art of self-control'	124
8	Jane Eyre: 'lurid hieroglyphics'	148
9	Shirley: bodies and markets	183
10	Villette: 'the surveillance of a sleepless eye'	219
	Conclusion	243
	Notes	248
	Index	286