An associate professor of English at Oregon State University, Elizabeth A. Campbell has published articles on Victorian literature in Victorian Studies, Dickens Studies Annual and MLA Approaches to Teaching Middlemarch.
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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
