Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity
by
Rebecca Rainof
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian...