Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / Rebecca Rainof. - 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations. - Series in Victorian studies . - Series in Victorian Studies. .

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.


English.

9780821445389 0821445383

4050754 Proquest Ebook Central 22573/ctt1rbwfdw JSTOR

2015022080


1800-1999


Adulthood in literature.
Middle age in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Adulthood in literature.
English fiction.
Middle age in literature.


Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

PR878.A375 / R35 2015eb

823/.809354