Eros and Psyche : The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot

ISBN-13: 9781138779228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 226 str.

Karen Chase

Opis

How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of 'Eros and Psyche', first published in 1984. In examining how three authors, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, depict the mind and organise emotion, Chase approaches their works as expressive structures, and analyses their struggle to accommodate rival imperatives in depicting personality: desire and duty, guilt and innocence, love and autonomy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  A note on texts;  Introduction  1. Brontë’s romance  2. Personality in a Pickwickian sense  3. Jane Eyre’s interior design  4. Where is Jane Eyre?  5. Bleak House: plot, character, and the tragic sense  6. Family feeling in a Bleak House  7. Mind and body in Middlemarch  8. The cygnet in the pond, the current in the mind;  Conclusion;  Notes;  Index