Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
The Belly of Sheol
CHAPTER ONE
“Strange Introversions”
Newman, Mature Conversion, and the Poetics of Purgatory
CHAPTER TWO
George Eliot’s Winter Tales
CHAPTER THREE
The Bachelor’s Purgatory
Arrested Development and the Progress of Shades
CHAPTER FOUR
Odd Women and Eccentric Plotting
Maturity, Modernism, and Woolf’s Victorian Retrospection
CODA
Descent and Tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
