George Gissing : voices of the unclassed /
Ryle, Martin H.
Taylor, Jenny,1949-
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Gissing's critical contexts / Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor -- Blatherwicks and busybodies : Gissing on the culture of philanthropic slumming / Diana Maltz -- Her appearance in public : sexual danger, urban space and the working woman / Emma Liggins -- 'Just a morsel to stay your appetite' : Gissing and the cultural politics of food / Scott McCracken -- The strange case of Godwin Peak : double consciousness in Born in exile / Jenny Bourne Taylor -- Sex and the city : Gissing Helmholtz, Freud / David Glover -- The discontents of everyday life : civilization and the pathology of masculinity in The whirlpool / Simon J. James -- Whirlpools of modernity : European naturalism and the urban phantasmagoria / Deborah Parsons -- 'To show a man of letters' : Gissing, cultural authority and literary modernism / Martin Ryle -- New Grub Street's self-consciousness / Christina Lupton and Tilman Reitz -- The voice of the unclassed : Gissing and twentieth-century English fiction / Patrick Parrinder.
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Literature and society
Social problems in literature.