Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence

by Robert M. Polhemus

Book Overview

In this profoundly original and far-reaching study, Robert M. Polhemus shows how novels have helped to make erotic love a matter of faith in modern life. Erotic faith, Polhemus argues, is an emotional conviction--ultimately religious in nature--that meaning, value, hope, and even the possibility of transcendence can be found in love.

Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Polhemus shows the reciprocity of love as subject, the novel as form,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226673235
• ISBN13: 9780226673233
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"