19th Century
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Arnold White
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Bien Aimee
British Museum Reading Room
Cappella Sistina
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Chronic
Criticism
Denzil Quarrier
divided self in Victorian novels
Emma Vine
Emotional Exhaustion
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gender roles in fiction
Gissing
Gissing's View
Gissing's Work
Godwin Peak
Grey Dress
Grub Street
Henry Ryecroft
intellectual history criticism
Jasper Mil Vain
Life's Morning
literary dichotomy studies
Literature
Nether World
nineteenth-century novel theory
Novel
Odd Women
Overburdened
Sleeping Fires
Snuffed
social realism scholarship
St John's Hospital
Superb
Supports State Schools
Victorian literature analysis
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138649774
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published 1986. In this book the author refutes the notion that Gissing’s weaknesses as a novelist are associated with defects in his personality and argues that the power of his writing stemmed from his divided character. Gissing’s permanently divided emotions on poverty, reformism, women and art were, at his best, the reason he could write so convincingly about them. This analysis of Gissing’s imagination and the fictional development in his major works shows that the effectiveness of his novels depends largely on these dichotomies and opposites. This work covers the whole range of Gissing’s writing and relates it to its social and intellectual milieu.
David Grylls
