George Gissing
Subtitle: voices of the unclassed
By: edited by Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor.
Contributors: Ryle, Martin H.; Taylor, Jenny Bourne, 1949-
Series: The nineteenth century series; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Ashgate Pub Co
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Gissing, George, 1857-1903 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Gissing, George, 1857-1903 -- Political and social views.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Social problems in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Gissing's critical contexts / Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor; title: Blatherwicks and busybodies : Gissing on the culture of philanthropic slumming / Diana Maltz; title: Her appearance in public : sexual danger, urban space and the working woman / Emma Liggins; title: 'Just a morsel to stay your appetite' : Gissing and the cultural politics of food / Scott McCracken; title: The strange case of Godwin Peak : double consciousness in Born in exile / Jenny Bourne Taylor; title: Sex and the city : Gissing Helmholtz, Freud / David Glover; title: The discontents of everyday life : civilization and the pathology of masculinity in the whirlpool / Simon J. James; title: Whirlpools of modernity : European naturalism and the urban phantasmagoria / Deborah Parsons; title: 'To show a man of letters' : Gissing, cultural authority and literary modernism / Martin Ryle; title: New Grub Street's self-consciousness / Christina Lupton and Tilman Reitz; title: The voice of the unclassed : Gissing and twentieth-century English fiction / Patrick Parrinder.