Gissing and the City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Why does Gissing Matter?

   • John Spiers

   Pages 1-29

3. New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City

   • Meaghan Clarke

   Pages 31-40

4. Buildings, Residences, and Mansions: George Gissing’s ‘prejudice against flats’

   • Richard Dennis

   Pages 41-62

5. Gissing’s Saturnalia: Urban Crowds, Carnivalesque Subversion and the Crisis of Paternal Authority

   • Luisa Villa

   Pages 63-74

6. Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle

   • John Sloan

   Pages 75-85

7. Between Dreamworlds and Real Worlds: Gissing’s London

   • Scott McCracken

   Pages 86-99

8. ‘Citizens of London?’ Working Women, Leisure and Urban Space in Gissing’s 1880s Fiction

   • Emma Liggins

   Pages 100-108

9. ‘Counter-jumpers’ and ‘Queens of the Street’: The Shop Girl of Gissing and his Contemporaries

   • Elizabeth F. Evans

   Pages 109-117

10. Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing’s New Woman Musician

    • Laura Vorachek

    Pages 118-128

11. ‘Children of the Street’: Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing’s London

    • Margaret E. Mitchell

    Pages 129-138

12. ‘Woman as an Invader’: Travel and Travail in George Gissing’s The Odd Women

    • Josephine A. McQuail

    Pages 139-151

13. The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the ‘New’ Suburban

    • Lara Baker Whelan

    Pages 152-161

14. ‘Muddy depths’: The Thames in Gissing’s Fiction

    • Christine Huguet

    Pages 162-170

15. ‘Amid the Dear Old Horrors’: Memory, London, and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

    • Mary Hammond

    Pages 171-179

16. Gissing’s Urban Neurasthenia

    • John Halperin

    Pages 180-188

17. In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City

    • Simon J. James

    Pages 189-198

18. George Gissing’s Scrapbook: A Storehouse of ‘Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain’

    • Bouwe Postmus

    Pages 199-211

19. Gissing: A Life in Death — A Cavalcade of Gissing Criticism in the Last Hundred Years

    • Pierre Coustillas

    Pages 212-225

Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work is particularly linked to 'the city' and the crisis of urban experience, especially in the archetypal modern imperial city.

• drama
• England
• fiction
• novel
• Victorian era

• Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK

  John Spiers

• School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Glamorgan, UK

  John Spiers

MEAGHAN CLARKE Lecturer, Leverhulme Special Research Fellow in the History of Art, University of Sussex, UK PIERRE COUSTILLAS Professor Emeritus, University of Lille, France RICHARD DENNIS Reader in Geography, University College, London, UK ELIZABETH F. EVANS Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA JOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA MARY HAMMOND Lecturer in English, Middlesex University, UK CHRISTINE HUGUET Senior Lecturer in English, University of Lille, France SIMON J. JAMES Lecturer in English, University of Durham, UK EMMA LIGGINS Lecturer in English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, UK SCOTT MCCRACKEN Professor of English, University of Keele, UK JOSEPHINE A. MCQUAIL Professor of English, Tennessee Technical University, USA MARGARET E. MITCHELL Assistant Professor of English, State University of West Georgia, USA BOUWE 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, UK LUISA VILLA Professor Associate, Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages, University of Genoa, Italy LAURA VORACHEK Instructor, Department of English, University of Alabama, USA LARA BAKER WHELAN Acting Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence, and Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing, Berry College, Mt. Berry, USA

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