Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals)

How 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.

Acknowledgements; A note on texts; Introduction 1. Brontë's romance 2. Personality in a Pickwickian sense 3. Jane Eyre's interior design 4. Where is Jane Eyre? 5. Bleak House: plot, character, and the tragic sense 6. Family feeling in a Bleak House 7. Mind and body in Middlemarch 8. The cygnet in the pond, the current in the mind; Conclusion; Notes; Index