Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
by
Daniel Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
"Reader, I married him," Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Brontë’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...