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Fortune's wheel : Dickens and the iconography of women's time / Elizabeth A. Campbell.
Van Pelt Library PR4592.F38 C36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Elizabeth A., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Fate and fatalism in literature.
- Tragic, The, in literature.
- Fortune in literature.
- Wheels in literature.
- Cycles in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Time in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 253 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- An original and illuminating study of the powerful Victorian symbolism of Fortune and the wheel in the work of Charles Dickens.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The World of Fortune 1
- Chapter 2 Spring 1840-1849: The Patriarch and the Goddess 67
- Chapter 3 Summer 1850-1853: Mother Shipton's Wheel of Fortune 115
- Chapter 4 Fall 1854-1859: Minding the Wheel 157
- Chapter 5 Winter 1860: The World Turned Upside Down 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082141514X
- OCLC:
- 52347526
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