Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals)

Taylor & Francis

Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals)The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bront, Charles Dickens, George Eliot\nAuthor(s): Karen Chase\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138779259, 978-1138779259\nSynopsis\nHow 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 personality: desire and duty, guilt and innocence, love and autonomy. \n\nThe title begins with Bronts early Angrian tales, which introduce the problem that unifies the book: the attempt of Victorian fiction to escape the constraints of the romance mode, while assimil.