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.
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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.
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