Polhemus argues that erotic faith is an emotional conviction that meaning, value, hope and even transcendance can be found in love. Explores novel as form, recoprocity of love as subject, in works by Austen, Scott, the Brontes, Dickens, Woolf, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Joyce, Beckett. Juxtaposes novels to visual arts of the time to show common themes and illustrate how the novel has influenced our perception of all art. Pristine, like new. University of Chicago Press. Paper. 1990. USED. $12.00