Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel

by Daniel Wright

How did the Victorians think about love and desire?

"Reader, I married him," Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Bront 's novel. But why does she do it, we might logically ask, after all he's put her through? The Victorian realist novel privileges the marriage plot, in which love and desire are represented as formative social experiences. Yet how novelists depict their characters reasoning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421425173
• ISBN13: 9781421425177
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"