Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series by Sally Shuttleworth, Jill L. Matus

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  • Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #1)
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    Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #1)

    Sally Shuttleworth

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    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... more

  • Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #1)
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    Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #1)

    Jill L. Matus

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    · 1 ratings · published 2009

    Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas about the relationship between mind and body... more

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