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Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence
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Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence Hardcover - 1990 - 1st Edition

by Robert M. Polhemus


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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, and faith as motive in important works by Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Bronts, Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett. Throughout, Polhemus relates the novelists' representation of love to that of such artists as Botticelli, Vermeer, Claude Lorrain, Redon, and Klimt. Juxtaposing their paintings with nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts both reveals the ways in which novels develop and individualize common erotic and religious themes and illustrates how the novel has influenced our perception of all art.

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  • Title Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence
  • Author Robert M. Polhemus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 371
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 1990-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226673226 / 0226673227
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.96 x 1.11 in (24.38 x 17.68 x 2.82 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Love in literature, English fiction - 19th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89020438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.009
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