The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / Rebecca Rainof.

By: Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Victorian StudiesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780821445389Subject(s): Adulthood in literature | Middle age in literature | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity.DDC classification: 823/.809354 LOC classification: PR878.A375 | R35 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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