Garland For Gissing /

Garland For Gissing / / edited by Bouwe Postmus.

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...

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

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