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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
Series:	Series in Victorian Studies.
Subjects:	Adulthood in literature. Middle age in literature. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction. 1800 - 1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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.