The Hell of the English
Author: Barbara Weiss
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780838750995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book identifies and traces bankruptcy as an archetypal experience of the Victorian age and as a major metaphor in the language, imagery, and structure of the Victorian novel. With reference to selected works by Eliot, Bronte, Gaskell, Dickens, and Thackeray, it presents the range of symbolic meanings of the bankruptcy metaphor.