This 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.
- ISBN10 0838750990
- ISBN13 9780838750995
- Publish Date June 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English