George Gissing
Subtitle: Voices Of The Unclassed (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Contributors: Martin H. Ryle (Editor); Jenny Bourne Taylor (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: July 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780754636755
Subjects: Biography: general; Social problems in literature; Gissing, George,; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views; Literary Criticism; British Isles; History; 1857-1903; 19th century; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; England; Literature and society
First sentence: George Gissing, who was born in the heyday of the Victorian era and died at the dawn of the twentieth century, is now seen as an integral part of the cultural landscape of the fin de siecle, but his position within this landscape remains a peculiar one.