The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / by Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

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.…”

The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / by Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

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.…”
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