عنوان

Gissing and the City :

شابک

0230524451

شابک

1280566183

شابک

6610566186

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9780230524453

شابک

9781280566189

شابک

9786610566181

شماره

b386830

عنوان اصلي

Gissing and the City :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by John Spiers.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Palgrave Macmillan,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2006.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(240 p.)

متن يادداشت

Description based upon print version of record.

متن يادداشت

Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why does Gissing Matter? 1 New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City 2 Buildings, Residences, and Mansions: George Gissing's 'prejudice against flats' 3 Gissing's Saturnalia: Urban Crowds, Carnivalesque Subversion and the Crisis of Paternal Authority 4 Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle 5 Between Dreamworlds and Real Worlds: Gissing's London 6 'Citizens of London?' Working Women, Leisure and Urban Space in Gissing's 1880s Fiction. 7 'Counter-jumpers' and 'Queens of the Street': The Shop Girl of Gissing and his Contemporaries8 Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing's New Woman Musician 9 'Children of the Street': Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing's London 10 'Woman as an Invader': Travel and Travail in George Gissing's The Odd Women 11 The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the 'New' Suburban 12 'Muddy depths': The Thames in Gissing's Fiction 13 'Amid the Dear Old Horrors': Memory, London, and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 14 Gissing's Urban Neurasthenia. 15 In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City16 George Gissing's Scrapbook: A Storehouse of 'Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain' 17 Gissing: A Life in Death -- A Cavalcade of Gissing Criticism in the Last Hundred Years.

متن يادداشت

Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work isGissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work isGissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work is",,,,,,"Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work is particularly linked to 'the city' and the crisis of urban experience, especially in the archetypal modern imperial city.

موضوع مستند نشده

Electronic books

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

John Professor Spiers

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

John Spiers

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y