Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals): The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot

by Karen Chase

Book Overview

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 Bront , 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138779253
• ISBN13: 9781138779259
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"