عنوان

Gissing and the city :

(Number (ISBN

1403997721

(Number (ISBN

9781403997722

Number

b744339

Title Proper

Gissing and the city :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

cultural crisis and the making of books in late Victorian England /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited, and with an introduction by John Spiers.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 225 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Introduction: Why Does Gissing Matter?; J. Spiers -- New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City; M. Clarke -- Buildings, Residences and Mansions: George Gissing's 'Prejudice Against Flats'; R. Dennis -- Gissing's Saturnalia: Urban Crowds, Carnivalesque Subversion and the Crisis of Paternal Authority; L. Villa -- Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle; J. Sloan -- Between Dream Worlds and Real Worlds: Gissing's London; S. McCracken -- 'Citizens of London?' Working Women, Leisure and Urban Space in Gissing's 1880's Fiction; E. Liggins -- 'Counter-jumpers' and 'Queens of the Street': The shop girl of Gissing and his contemporaries; E.F. Evans -- Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing's New Woman Musician; L. Vorachek -- 'Children of the Street': Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing's London; M.E. Mitchell -- 'Woman as an Invader': Travel and Travail in George Gissing's The Odd Woman; J.A. McQuail -- The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the 'New' Suburban; L. Baker Whelan -- 'Muddy Depths': The Thames in Gissing's Fiction; C. Huguet -- 'Amid the Dear Old Horrors' Memory, London and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft; M. Hammond -- Gissing's Urban Euthenasia; J. Halperin -- In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City; S.J. James -- George Gissing's Scrapbook: a Storehouse of 'Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain; B. Postmus -- Gissing: A Life in Death-a Cavalcade of Gissing Criticism in the Last Hundred Years; P. Coustillas.

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Gissing, George,1857-1903-- Homes and haunts-- England-- London.

Gissing, George,1857-1903-- Knowledge-- London (England)

Gissing, George,1857-1903

Gissing, George.

City and town life in literature.

Novelists, English-- Homes and haunts-- England-- London.

City and town life in literature.

Engels.

Homes.

Intellectual life.

Literature.

Novelists, English-- Homes and haunts.

Roman.

Romans.

Stadscultuur.

Stadt (Motiv)

London (England), In literature.

London (England), Intellectual life, 19th century.

England, London.

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

Spiers, John,1941-

Date of Transaction

20201204044506.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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