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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shalyn ClaggettPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438493152ISBN 10: 1438493150 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Feminist Phrenologists and the Battle for the Brain 2. Of Two Minds: Charlotte and Anne Brontë’s Use of Innate Psychology 3. Harriet Martineau’s Material Rebirth 4. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Physiological Critique of Social Identity 5. George Eliot and Biological Destiny Afterword Battle for the Brain Redux: Brain Imaging, Neurosexism, and Feminist Science Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsEqual Natures blew me away with its intelligence and its genuinely audacious premise. This is some of the most original thinking I have seen in a long, long time. The caliber of Claggett's scholarship should make this book necessary reading not only for Victorian studies scholars but also for women's and gender studies scholars and historians of medicine. - Carolyn Betensky, author of Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel """Equal Natures blew me away with its intelligence and its genuinely audacious premise. This is some of the most original thinking I have seen in a long, long time. The caliber of Claggett's scholarship should make this book necessary reading not only for Victorian studies scholars but also for women's and gender studies scholars and historians of medicine."" — Carolyn Betensky, author of Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel" Author InformationShalyn Claggett is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University. She is the coeditor (with Lara Karpenko) of Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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