Garland For Gissing / / edited by Bouwe Postmus.

• TeilnehmendeR: Postmus, Bouwe,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The crown upon the continuing vitality and popularity of Gissing studies in the final decade of the twentieth century was the publication of The Collected Letters of George Gissing (1990-97). The editors of that mammoth undertaking, Paul Mattheisen, Arthur Young and Pierre Coustillas, had long been an inspiration to the younger generation of Gissing scholars, and their presence at the International George Gissing Conference at Amsterdam in September 1999 explained the success of the encounter between Gissing's older and younger critics. Ever since the reappraisal of Gissing's works began to get under way in the early 1960s through the publication of many new editions of the works and ground-breaking critical studies by Arthur Young, Jacob Korg and Pierre Coustillas, it has become impossible to ignore the high status he now enjoys by rights, which resembles the position granted to him long ago by his contemporaries, as one of the leading English novelists of the late nineteenth century. This collection of essays is remarkable for its emphasis on women's issues addressed in Gissing's novels, ranging from the inadequate education of women to the struggle for greater female independence, within and without marriage. Several contributors seek to define the precise nature and quality of Gissing's achievement and his place in the canon and, in the process, they open up fascinating, new opportunities for future research.

Table of Contents

Bouwe POSTMUS: Introduction -- 1. Pierre COUSTILLAS: Gissing the European -- 2. Simon JAMES: Experiments in Realism: How to Read a George Gissing Novel -- 3. Michael CRONIN: Gissing's Criticism of Dickens -- 4. Barbara RAWLINSON: Buried Treasure: George Gissing's Short Fiction -- 5. Lucy CRISPIN: Living in Exile: Self-Image, Social Role and the Problem of Identity -- 6. Maria Teresa CHIALANT: The Feminization of the City in Gissing's Fiction: The Streetwalker, the Flâneuse , the Shopgirl -- 7. Emanuela ETTORRE: Sensational Gissing? Denzil Quarrier and the "Politics" of Dissimulation -- 8. Constance HARSH: Women with Ideas: Gissing's The Odd Women and the New Woman Novel -- 9. Liz HEDGECOCK: Men at Work: Gender, Class and Ideologies of Employment in In the Year of Jubilee -- 10. Sandra R. WOODS: Dangerous Minds: the Education of Women in Gissing's Marriage Quartet -- 11. Emma LIGGINS: Idiot Heroines and Worthless Women? Gissing's 1890s Fiction and Female Independence -- 12. Arlene YOUNG: Eve Madeley and Rhoda Nunn: Gissing's Doubled Enigma -- 13. David GLOVER: "This Spectacle of a World's Wonder": Commercial Culture and Urban Space in Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee -- 14. Anthony CURTIS: Gissing and the Lushingtons -- 15. Christine HUGUET: "Written, too, in exile!": A Metatextual Approach to Born in Exile -- 16. Stephen OGDEN: Darwinian Scepticism in George Gissing's Born in Exile -- 17. Lewis D. MOORE: Deception, Violence, and the Criminal Act in George Gissing's Fiction -- 18. L. R. LEAVIS: Gissing in Context -- 19. Diana MALTZ: Gissing as Thwarted Aesthete -- 20. Fumio HOJOH: Gissing and His Japanese Readers -- 21. Jacob KORG: Gissing and Ancient Rome -- 22. Russell PRICE and Francesco BADOLATO: Social Subordination and Superiority in Gissing's "A Daughter of the Lodge" -- 23. John SLOAN: Gissing and Hogarth -- 24. Raymond L. BAUBLES JR.: The Bankruptcies of the Nation in Meredith's One of Our Conquerors and Gissing's The Whirlpool -- 25. William GREENSLADE: Writing against Himself: Gissing and the Lure of Modernity in In the Year of Jubilee -- Selected Index.