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Autore |
Rainof Rebecca Elise <1979-> |
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Titolo |
The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / / Rebecca Rainof |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Collana |
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Series in Victorian studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Adulthood in literature |
Middle age in literature |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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