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This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Brontë existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts ranging from local newspaper copy to the medical tomes in the Reverend Patrick Brontë's library, Sally Shuttleworth explores the interpenetration of economic, social, and psychological discourse in the early and mid-nineteenth century, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex, often contradictory, discursive framework. Shuttleworth offers a detailed analysis of Brontë's fiction, informed by a new understanding of Victorian constructions of sexuality and insanity, and the operations of medical and psychological surveillance.

Psychological fiction, English --- Psychology in literature. --- Psychology as a theme in literature --- History and criticism. --- Brontë, Charlotte, --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Bolangte, Xialuodi, --- Bronte, Karlotta, --- Bronte, Sharlotta, --- Brontëová, Charlotte, --- Bŭrontʻe, Syarŭllotʻŭ, --- Douro, --- Pirāṇṭē, Cārlaṭṭi, --- Po-lang-tʻe, Hsia-lo-ti, --- Pŭrontʻe, Syarŭllotʻŭ, --- Tree, --- Бронте, Ш., --- Бронте, Шарлотта, --- Bellová, C., --- Bell, Currer, --- Wellesley, Charles Albert Florian, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Knowledge --- Psychology. --- Self in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Psychology --- Great Britain --- History --- 19th century --- English fiction --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology in literature --- Self in literature --- Sex in literature --- Brontèe, Charlotte, - 1816-1855 - Knowledge - Psychology. --- Psychology - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- English fiction - Psychological aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Bronte, Charlotte,

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This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of 'modern life'. Essays within the collection examine ways in which cancer, suicide, and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of 'new' ways of living. Others explore the legal, institutional, and intellectual changes that contributed to modern medical practice. The volume traces ways that physiological and psychological problems were being constituted in relation to each other, and to their social contexts, and offers new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century. "Conditions such as stress, burnout, overwork and fatigue are central preoccupations of our era, but they have a longer history, that gives depth to contemporary debates. Similar problems were diagnosed in the nineteenth century, as popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged and reframed by the politics and structures of 'modern life'. Engaging with current scholarship on the history of medicine, science, and technology, disability studies, childhood, and consumer culture, this collaborative volume explores how emotional and physical ailments of the nineteenth century were often understood as uniquely 'modern'. Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson, and Emilie Taylor-Brown gather work by leading international scholars to explore changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. Case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China, and the South Pacific, demonstrate that a multiplicity of medical practices were organised around new and evolving definitions of the modern self. Essays within the collection examine the ways in which cancer, suicide, and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of 'new' ways of living. Others explore the legal, institutional, and intellectual changes that contributed to both positive and negative understandings of modern medical practice. Ultimately, the volume's integrative and holistic approach to notions of disease disrupts the frequent compartmentalisation of psychiatric, environmental, and literary histories in present practice to offer new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century." -- Back cover.

Medicine. --- Social medicine --- Medicine --- History --- History of medicine --- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 --- Social & cultural history --- history of medicine --- diseases of modern life --- global modernities --- medical modernity --- medicine and culture --- medicine and society --- pathologies of progress --- Public health --- Civilization, Modern --- Sociology --- History Of Medicine --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General --- Nineteenth century --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Health Workforce

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Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or "diseases of modernity" resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various "neurotic remedies," in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.

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