The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / Rebecca Rainof.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780821445389
- 0821445383
- Adulthood in literature
- Middle age in literature
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Adulthood in literature
- English fiction
- Middle age in literature
- 1800-1999
- 823/.809354 23
- PR878.A375 R35 2015eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-244) and index.
Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- George Eliot's Winter tales -- The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.
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