Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

by Sally Shuttleworth

This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Brontë as having existed in a historical vacuum. Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes belonging to the Brontës, Sally Shuttleworth explores Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality and insanity, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex framework. Shuttleworth offers a reading of Brontë's fiction informed by a new understanding of the psychological debates of her time.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Victorian, Books About Books, Feminism

308 pages, Hardcover

First published March 7, 1996

Reviews

[Marko Bojkovský · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rad je obeležen mišlju Mišela Fukoa i njegovim knjigama "Disciplinovati i kažnjavati", "Civilizacija i ludilo"... Obrađuje uticaj i rane psihologije na radove Šarlote Bronte (frenologija, monomanija), figure lekara kao stravičnog autoriteta, shvatanja viktorijanskog čoveka da ljudski identitet nije zakucan u večnosti, da "ludilo" nije nešto što je nužno urođeno, već užasavajuća mogućnost koja preti svakome.

[Marijana☕✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nedostajalo mi je da čitam teorijske književne tekstove tako da je ovo bilo zanimljivo, ali očekivala sam da će biti još zanimljivije.
Svakako dubinski analizirano u kontekstu viktorijanskog doba, ali mislim da je autorka na momente čak i previše učitavala neke stvari u Šarlotine namere.

[Tabitha Rowland]

read for uni so not going to give a full review lmao but it was really interesting