Titlebook: Gissing and the City; Cultural Crisis and John Spiers (Senior Research Fellow, Visiting Prof Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle,e Bohéme’. Gillian Tindall, writing with no-nonsense Britishness, as well as with a woman’s eye to the matter, went so far as to attribute the depth of Gissing’s attraction to his first wife, Nell Harrison, to ‘a(chǎn) desire to create the de Musset-Murger idyll … this cloud-cuckoo-land of love-in-a-garre

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,Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing’s New Woman Musician,usical genius. Setting his novel against the backdrop of the specular economy of late nineteenth-century London, Gissing’s engagement with these debates sheds light on the vexed question of his feminism. His New Woman’s increased autonomy and sexual freedom is evident in her pursuit of a professiona

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,‘Children of the Street’: Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing’s London,tension, even contradictions: at times the city seems to impose rigid boundaries on the lives of its fictional inhabitants and the conventions of gender that shape their identity, while at other times it seems to grant a kind of freedom that has profound implications for gender and for social progre

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,‘Muddy depths’: The Thames in Gissing’s Fiction, natural and an urban sign, a legible environment and a symbolically charged milieu, testifies to the author’s abiding concern with London, the world capital. Because Gissing posits the metropolis overwhelmingly as the main locale of his novels of contemporary life, the river is given the place of h

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,Gissing’s Urban Neurasthenia,signed for the torment of any man who cares for beauty and tradition.” (Coustillas, 1968, p. 3). From . (1880), his first published novel, to . (1905), the last one he completed, and almost everywhere in between, Gissing’s repugnance to city life is vividly articulated. He always wished to live amid

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,George Gissing’s ,: A Storehouse of ‘Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain’,oup of Gissing’s writings in his autograph. Being manuscript notes written mainly in connection with his works and novels.’ This material (defined as ‘the property of a lady’) was doubtless offered for sale by Alfred Gissing, the writer’s younger son, into whose hands many of his father’s miscellane