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

Author/creator Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAthens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Series in Victorian studies
Contents Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- 1. "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- 2. George Eliot's Winter tales -- 3. The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- 4. Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015022080
ISBN9780821421789 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

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