Gissing and the City
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Gissing and the City

Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England

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Gissing and the City

Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England

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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.

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Table of contents

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