Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781403997722
ISBN-10: 1403997721
Pagini: 225
Ilustrații: XIV, 225 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:2006
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1403997721
Pagini: 225
Ilustrații: XIV, 225 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:2006
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Why Does Gissing Matter?; J.Spiers New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City; M.Clarke Buildings, Residences and Mansions: George Gissing's 'Prejudice Against Flats'; R.Dennis Gissing's Saturnalia: Urban Crowds, Carnivalesque Subversion and the Crisis of Paternal Authority; L.Villa Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle; J.Sloan Between Dream Worlds and Real Worlds: Gissing's London; S.McCracken 'Citizens of London?' Working Women, Leisure and Urban Space in Gissing's 1880's Fiction; E.Liggins 'Counter-jumpers' and 'Queens of the Street': The shop girl of Gissing and his contemporaries; E.F.Evans Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing's New Woman Musician; L.Vorachek 'Children of the Street': Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing's London; M.E.Mitchell 'Woman as an Invader': Travel and Travail in George Gissing's The Odd Women ; J.A.McQuail The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the 'New' Suburban; L.Baker Whelan 'Muddy Depths': The Thames in Gissing's Fiction; C.Huguet 'Amid the Dear Old Horrors' Memory, London and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft ; M.Hammond Gissing's Urban Euthenasia; J.Halperin In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City; S.J.James George Gissing's Scrapbook: a Storehouse of 'Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain; B.Postmus Gissing: A Life in Death-a Cavalcade of Gissing Criticism in the Last Hundred Years; P.Coustillas
Notă biografică
MEAGHAN CLARKE Lecturer, Leverhulme Special Research Fellow in the History of Art, University of Sussex, UKPIERRE COUSTILLAS Professor Emeritus, University of Lille, FranceRICHARD DENNIS Reader in Geography, University College, London, UKELIZABETH F. EVANS Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAJOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USAMARY HAMMOND Lecturer in English, Middlesex University, UKCHRISTINE HUGUET Senior Lecturer in English, University of Lille, FranceSIMON J. JAMES Lecturer in English, University of Durham, UKEMMA LIGGINS Lecturer in English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, UKSCOTT MCCRACKEN Professor of English, University of Keele, UKJOSEPHINE A. MCQUAIL Professor of English, Tennessee Technical University, USAMARGARET E. MITCHELL Assistant Professor of English, State University of West Georgia, USABOUWE POSTMUS Lecturer in English, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands JOHN SLOAN Fellow and Tutor in English, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer, Oxford University, UKLUISA VILLA Professor Associate, Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages, University of Genoa, ItalyLAURA VORACHEK Instructor, Department of English, University of Alabama, USALARA BAKER WHELAN Acting Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence, and Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing, Berry College, Mt. Berry, USA