The Victorian novel of adulthood [electronic resource] : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / Rebecca Rainof
- Author:
- Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-
- Published:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Access Online:
- serialssolutions.com
- Series:
- Series in Victorian studies
- Restrictions on Access:
- License restrictions may limit access.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- 1. "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- 2. George Eliot's Winter tales -- 3. The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- 4. Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.
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- ISBN:
- 9780821421789 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780821445389 (pdf) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
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