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

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,...

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"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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