198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1968. In the English literary production of the eighteen eighties and nineties, George Gissing stands as an important figure. The rising interest in him since the centenary of his birth in 1957 is efficiently consolidating his very substantial claim to be reckoned as a significant novelist of the late Victorian period. In this selection of essays, stress has been laid almost exclusively on criticism, but biographical clues are frequently given in the pieces reprinted. This title aims to bring new students into touch with the novelist's works.
Part 1 General Studies; Chapter 1 Who Knows George Gissing?, Russell Kirk; Chapter 2 George Gissing, Humanist, Stanley Alden; Chapter 3 Gissing as a Portrayer of Society, Ruth Capers McKay; Chapter 4 The Permanent Stranger; Chapter 5 George Gissing, George Orwell; Chapter 6 Gissing's Heroines; Chapter 7 Division of Purpose in George Gissing, Jacob Korg; Part 2 Special Influences; Chapter 8 Influence of the Classics on Gissing’s Novels of Modern Life, Samuel Vogt Gapp; Chapter 9 Gissing, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky, Gilbert Phelps; Chapter 10 Gissing and Schopenhauer, C. J. Francis; Part 3 Some Views on the Major Works; Chapter 11 George Gissing: Poet of Fatigue, Irving Howe; Chapter 12 'Grub Street', V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 13 The Spiritual Theme of Born in Exile, Jacob Korg; Chapter 14 A Novelist of the Hour, Greenough White; Chapter 15 Definition as Structure in The Ryecroft Papers, Jackson I. Cope; Chapter 16 The Main Source of The Ryecroft Papers, Jacob Korg;
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