Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
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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"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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