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"There is Sex in Mind": Scientific Determinism and the Woman Question in Lady Audley's Secret
2012
Brno Studies in English
My contention in this paper is that in Lady Audley's Secret Elizabeth Braddon is critical of the nineteenth-century theories of cerebral and biological determinism in relation to the question of female madness. I argue in the first part that Braddon pinpoints phrenology -the study of the faculties of the mind from the conformation of the skull -as one of the institutionalized sciences that provided a materialistic underpinning and a further incentive to masculine hegemony. After I outline the
doi:10.5817/bse2012-1-6
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