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Equal natures : popular brain science and Victorian women's writing / Shalyn Claggett.

Van Pelt Library PR115 .C48 2023
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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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