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Equal natures : popular brain science and Victorian women's writing / Shalyn Claggett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claggett, Shalyn R., author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Phrenology in literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- English literature--Women authors.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Feminist Phrenologists and the Battle for the Brain
- ch. 2 Of Two Minds: Charlotte and Anne Bronte's Use of Innate Psychology
- ch. 3 Harriet Martineau's Material Rebirth
- ch. 4 Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Physiological Critique of Social Identity
- ch. 5 George Eliot and Biological Destiny.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438493152
- 1438493150
- OCLC:
- 1348102396
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