The Victorian novel of adulthood :
Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-
The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / Rebecca Rainof. - 1 online resource (265 pages) - Series in Victorian studies . - Series in Victorian Studies. .
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.
9780821445389 (e-book)
Adulthood in literature.
Middle age in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PR878.A375 / R35 2015eb
823/.809354
The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / Rebecca Rainof. - 1 online resource (265 pages) - Series in Victorian studies . - Series in Victorian Studies. .
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.
9780821445389 (e-book)
Adulthood in literature.
Middle age in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PR878.A375 / R35 2015eb
823/.809354