TY - BOOK AU - Rainof,Rebecca Elise TI - The Victorian novel of adulthood: plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity T2 - Series in Victorian studies SN - 9780821445389 AV - PR878 .V538 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - Adulthood in literature KW - Middle age in literature KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1086352&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -