George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed

ISBN-13: 9781138619760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 173 str.

Martin Ryle

Opis

This essay collection, bringing together British, European, and North American literary critics and cultural historians with diverse specialities and interests, demonstrates the range of contemporary perspectives through which his fiction can be viewed.

Spis treści

Contents: 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 20th-century English fiction, Patrick Parrinder; Index.

O autorze

Martin Ryle is Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the Univesity of Sussex.