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Fortune's wheel : Dickens and the iconography of women's time / Elizabeth A. Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Elizabeth A., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Fate and fatalism in literature.
- Tragic, The, in literature.
- Fortune in literature.
- Wheels in literature.
- Cycles in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Time in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1/THE WORLD OF FORTUNE
- 2/SPRING 1840-1849
- 3/SUMMER 1850-1853
- 4/FALL 1854-1859
- 5/WINTER 1860
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4174-4
- OCLC:
- 191935573
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