Shuttleworth, Professor Sally

Job Title: Professorial Fellow in English
College: St Anne's
Period/ Subject: Victorian

Email address: sally.shuttleworth@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

I recently completed work on The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900 (OUP, 2010), which looked at a range of literary texts from Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, Meredith, James, Hardy, Gosse, and others, in the light of the emerging sciences of child psychology and psychiatry, and the impact of evolutionary theory.    I am currently extending further strands of this work with reference to Hardy and James, and developing a new project, ‘Broken Minds: Psychiatry and Literary Culture in the Victorian Age’, which will look more broadly at the intersection of  literature and psychiatry, with particular reference to the development of the professions and the world of work.    In an inter-related project, I am building on earlier work on science in the nineteenth-century periodical  (www.sciper.org), looking this time specifically at the role of literature in the scientific and medical press.      

Teaching Areas:

Victorian literature and culture.

Recent Publications:

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (1984), Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (1996), and Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890 (1998), co-edited with Jenny Bourne Taylor. I have produced various textual editions including Hardy's Two on a Tower (1999), Gaskell's North and South (1998) Bronte's Jane Eyre (2000) and Eliot's The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob (2001). Co-edited collections of essays include Nature Transfigured: Science and Literature 1700-1900 (1989), Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science (1990), and Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2000).

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Ashgate, 2004), Reading the Magazine of Nature: Science and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Science Serialised (MIT Press, 2004).

The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2010)

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