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" Gissing and the city : "
edited, and with an introduction by John Spiers.
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BL
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989969
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b744339
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Gissing and the city : : cultural crisis and the making of books in late Victorian England /\ edited, and with an introduction by John Spiers.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2006.
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xiv, 225 pages :: illustrations, map ;; 23 cm
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1403997721
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: 9781403997722
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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 Woman; 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.
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Gissing, George,1857-1903-- Homes and haunts-- England-- London.
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Gissing, George,1857-1903-- Knowledge-- London (England)
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Gissing, George,1857-1903
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Gissing, George.
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City and town life in literature.
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Novelists, English-- Homes and haunts-- England-- London.
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City and town life in literature.
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Homes.
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Intellectual life.
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Literature.
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Novelists, English-- Homes and haunts.
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Roman.
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Stadt (Motiv)
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Engels.
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Romans.
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Stadscultuur.
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London (England), In literature.
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London (England), Intellectual life, 19th century.
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England, London.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8
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PR4717.G53 2006
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18.05bcl
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I561.074clc
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Spiers, John,1941-
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