English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Human Anatomy - Nervous System, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Neuroscience, Women Authors - British - Literary Criticism, English Fiction & Prose Literature
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Overview
Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences explores the role of the sexed brain in Victorian science and literature, showing the increasing nineteenth-century fixation on abnormal brain function and the cultural desire to create mental categories based on gender. In a discussion of neurology, psychology, and other mental sciences, Rachel Malane examines how the rational male mind and the emotional female mind became a culturally accepted idea that was substantiated by scientists and how the Victorian preoccupation with the sexed mind infiltrated contemporary literature. Focusing on the novels of Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Thomas Hardy, Malane analyzes how these narratives of love, insanity, and tragedy were in dynamic conversation with the prevailing views about the brain.Book Details
Published
October 10, 2005
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c2005.
Pages
229
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820479217