Fortune's Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time

by Elizabeth A. Campbell

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 trope for power, modernity, and progress.

In Fortune's Wheel, an original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082141514X
• ISBN13: 9780821415146
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"