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- catalog abstract ""In the first half of the nineteenth century, England became quite literally a world on wheels. The sweeping technological changes wrought by the railways, steam-powered factory engines, and progressively more sophisticated wheeled conveyances of all types produced a corresponding revolution in Victorian iconography: the image of the wheel emerged as a dominant symbol of power, modernity, and progress." "Charles Dickens appropriated this symbol and made it central to his novels. Between 1840 and 1860, a transformation took place in Dickens's thinking about gender and time, and this revolution is recorded in iconographic representations of the goddess Fortune and wheel imagery that appear in his work." "Drawing on a history of both literary and visual representations of Fortune, Elizabeth Campbell argues that Dickens's contribution to both the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel with the industrial one. Campbell's close reading of Dickens reveals that, as the wheel was increasingly identified as the official Victorian symbol for British industrial and economic progress, he reacted by employing this icon to represent a more pessimistic historical vision - as the tragic symbol for human fate in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12975212.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In the first half of the nineteenth century, England became quite literally a world on wheels. The sweeping technological changes wrought by the railways, steam-powered factory engines, and progressively more sophisticated wheeled conveyances of all types produced a corresponding revolution in Victorian iconography: the image of the wheel emerged as a dominant symbol of power, modernity, and progress." "Charles Dickens appropriated this symbol and made it central to his novels. Between 1840 and 1860, a transformation took place in Dickens's thinking about gender and time, and this revolution is recorded in iconographic representations of the goddess Fortune and wheel imagery that appear in his work." "Drawing on a history of both literary and visual representations of Fortune, Elizabeth Campbell argues that Dickens's contribution to both the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel with the industrial one. Campbell's close reading of Dickens reveals that, as the wheel was increasingly identified as the official Victorian symbol for British industrial and economic progress, he reacted by employing this icon to represent a more pessimistic historical vision - as the tragic symbol for human fate in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-239) and index.".
- catalog description "The world of fortune -- Spring 1840-1849, the patriarch and the goddess -- Summer 1850-1853, mother Shipton's wheel of fortune -- Fall 1854-1859, minding the wheel -- Winter 1860, the world turned upside down.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 253 p., [23] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fortune's wheel.".
- catalog identifier "082141514X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fortune's wheel.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : Ohio University Press,".
- catalog relation "Fortune's wheel.".
- catalog subject "823/.8 21".
- catalog subject "Cycles in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Fate and fatalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Fortune in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR4592.F38 C36 2003".
- catalog subject "Time in literature.".
- catalog subject "Tragic, The, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Wheels in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The world of fortune -- Spring 1840-1849, the patriarch and the goddess -- Summer 1850-1853, mother Shipton's wheel of fortune -- Fall 1854-1859, minding the wheel -- Winter 1860, the world turned upside down.".
- catalog title "Fortune's wheel : Dickens and the iconography of women's time / Elizabeth A. Campbell.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".