Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing’s early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part I
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing’s early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing’s early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing’s greatest authorial triumphs. His most critically acclaimed works, The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893) date from this time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing’s greatest authorial triumphs. His most critically acclaimed works, The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893) date from this time.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304039
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas’s prodigious biography examines the turbulent last years of the author’s life and his literary afterlife.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317304039
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas’s prodigious biography examines the turbulent last years of the author’s life and his literary afterlife.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing: 1857-1888
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315649467
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315649467
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Heroic Life of George Gissing: 1888-1897
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848931732
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing's greatest authorial triumphs.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848931732
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing's greatest authorial triumphs.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing: 1897-1903
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848931756
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part III covers the turbulent years of the author's life and his literary afterlife.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848931756
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part III covers the turbulent years of the author's life and his literary afterlife.
George Gissing and the Place of Realism
Author: Rebecca Hutcheon
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527571416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527571416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.
George Gissing and the Woman Question
Author: Christine Huguet
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317128591
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places Gissing alongside nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors as diverse as Paul Bourget, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser, theorizing the ways in which late-Victorian sexual difference is challenged, explored and performed in Gissing's work. In addition to analyzing the major novels, essays make a case for Gissing as a significant short story writer and address Gissing's own life and afterlife in ways that avoid biographical mimetics. The contributors also place Gissing's work in relation to discourses of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, identity, public space, class and labour, especially literary production. Increasingly viewed as a key chronicler of the late Victorian period's various redefinitions of sexual difference, Gissing is here recognized as a sincere, uncompromising chronicler of social change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317128591
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places Gissing alongside nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors as diverse as Paul Bourget, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser, theorizing the ways in which late-Victorian sexual difference is challenged, explored and performed in Gissing's work. In addition to analyzing the major novels, essays make a case for Gissing as a significant short story writer and address Gissing's own life and afterlife in ways that avoid biographical mimetics. The contributors also place Gissing's work in relation to discourses of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, identity, public space, class and labour, especially literary production. Increasingly viewed as a key chronicler of the late Victorian period's various redefinitions of sexual difference, Gissing is here recognized as a sincere, uncompromising chronicler of social change.
New Grub Street
Author: George Gissing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Heroic Life of George Gissing: 1857-1888
Author: Pierre Coustillas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848931718
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels, over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work.--From publisher website.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848931718
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels, over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work.--From publisher website.