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Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals) The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot
By Karen Chase
Copyright 1984
226 Pages
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Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
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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 Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot – depict the mind and organise emotion, Chase approaches their works as expressive structures, and analyses their... Read more
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
Biography
Karen Chase
