Erotic faith : being in love from Jane Austen to D.H. Lawrence / by Polhemus, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Faith, love, and the art of the novel : "The Feather Plucked from Cupid's Wing" -- The fortunate fall : Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) -- Fatal love and eroticizing history : Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)" -- The passionate calling : Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" (1847) -- Faithful repression and erotic enchantment : Charlotte Bronte's "Villette" (1853) -- The fixation of love : Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1860-61) -- In love with moistness : George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" (1860) -- The mirror of desire : Anthony Trollope's "Phineas Finn/Phineas Redux" (1869-74) -- Pastoral Erotics : Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874) -- Tristen is sold : the Joyce of love and the language of flow(er)s (1904-39) -- The prophet of love and the resurrection of the body : D. …”