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  • George Gissing and the Woman Question George Gissing and the Woman Question
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    George Gissing and the Woman Question

    George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The contributors place Gissing...
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  • The Woman Question and George Gissing The Woman Question and George Gissing
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    The Woman Question and George Gissing

    Even though his books never sold as well as those of more popular novelists, women in particular liked George Gissing's work and often wrote to him for advice. They could see he was keenly interested...
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  • The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II
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    The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II

    This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Part II assesses the period of Gissing's greatest authorial triumphs. His...
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  • New Grub Street by George Gissing, Fiction New Grub Street by George Gissing, Fiction
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    New Grub Street by George Gissing, Fiction

    The story's two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects and a shy, cerebral man and Jasper Milvain, a...
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  • George Gissing George Gissing
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    George Gissing

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the...
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  • The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III
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    The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III

    This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas's prodigious biography examines the...
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  • George Gissing; a Critical Study George Gissing; a Critical Study
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    George Gissing; a Critical Study

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...
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  • The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell
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    The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell

    In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that...
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  • Workers in the Dawn Workers in the Dawn
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    Workers in the Dawn

    This is George Gissing's best known and his first novel, standing alongside his classic New Grub Street. It is a distinctive, polemical, dramatic work focused on urban social problems. Gissing deals...
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  • Portraits in Charcoal Portraits in Charcoal
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    Portraits in Charcoal

    Half biography and half critical study, this book about George Gissing is for the general reader. It draws a parallel between the women in Gissing's life and the women in his novels. His books span...
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  • Readers and mistresses
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    Readers and mistresses

    Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women...
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  • The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903) is a semi-autobiographical work by George Gissing. Published in the last year of his life, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is presented as a diary of...
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  • Books And The Quiet Life Books And The Quiet Life
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    Books And The Quiet Life

    Books and the Quiet Life is a collection of essays by the acclaimed Victorian author George Gissing. In this work, Gissing reflects on his life as a writer, the joys of reading, and the benefits of a...
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  • New Grub Street
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    New Grub Street

    New Grub Street (1891) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by his own struggles as a working writer and unhappily married man, Gissing crafts a tale of talent, ambition, and the strain placed on...
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  • Language of Gender and Class Language of Gender and Class
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    Language of Gender and Class

    The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage...
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  • Their Portraits in My Books Their Portraits in My Books
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    Their Portraits in My Books

    George Gissing's books, published during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, are memorable for their portraits of women. Only a few women played active roles in his life, but those who...
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  • The Unclassed
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    The Unclassed

    The Unclassed (1884) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by his own struggles as a working writer forced to take up odd jobs while failing to gain traction with critics and readers, Gissing crafts...
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    A Literary Cavalcade-III

    Author Robert A. Parker has compiled here his critique of hundreds of novels he has read. This is the third of six volumes that cover authors alphabetically, in this case from George Gissing to Milan...
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  • The Odd Women
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    The Odd Women

    The Odd Women (1893) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by a report of over one million more women living in Britain than men, Gissing sought to explore the societal and personal implications of...
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  • In the Year of Jubilee In the Year of Jubilee
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    In the Year of Jubilee

    In the Year of Jubilee (1894) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by his own struggles as a working writer and unhappily married man, Gissing crafts a tale of romance and ambition that measures...
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  • The Paying Guest The Paying Guest
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    The Paying Guest

    This is a novel by George Gissing telling the story of a young couple, Leonard and Rachel, who take in a lodger to help with their finances. However, their tenant, Mr. Julian, soon becomes...
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  • FEMINIST REALISM AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE FEMINIST REALISM AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
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    FEMINIST REALISM AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE

    Molly Youngkin takes on a major literary problem of the turn-of-the-century: Was the transition from the Victorian novel to the modern novel enabled by antirealist or realist narrative strategies? To...
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  • Victorian Comedy and Laughter Victorian Comedy and Laughter
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    Victorian Comedy and Laughter

    This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and...
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  • Women at Odds
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    Women at Odds

    In Women at Odds, Riya Das demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in Victorian society. On the one hand, feminist antagonism disrupts the status quo in unanticipated...
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    From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad

    From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered...
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  • The Victorian Diary The Victorian Diary
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    The Victorian Diary

    In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of...
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  • The Emancipated The Emancipated
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    The Emancipated

    A novel by British author George Gissing, first published in 1890. Tells the story of a young woman who breaks free from the constraints of her oppressive upbringing and strikes out on her own in...
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  • Novel Pedagogy Novel Pedagogy
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    Novel Pedagogy

    Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits...
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  • Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction
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    Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction

    This book examines the proliferation of troubled, unstable and unreadable female figures in the English novels written by men between 1870 and 1910. This period saw the birth of literary modernism,...
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  • Notework
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    Notework

    Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering...
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  • Conceiving the City
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    Conceiving the City

    Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art...
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  • Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture
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    Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture

    Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters...
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  • Arthur Morrison and the East End Arthur Morrison and the East End
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    Arthur Morrison and the East End

    This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison's...
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  • Self Impression
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    Self Impression

    This book explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the...
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  • The Masses Are Revolting
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    The Masses Are Revolting

    The Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to...
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  • The Unclassed ... New edition. The Unclassed ... New edition.
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    The Unclassed ... New edition.

    Title: The Unclassed ... New edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's...
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  • Beacon's River Beacon's River
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    Beacon's River

    Beacon's River is a tale of ambition and human suffering in the mind and heart of a young man struggling for success as a novelist. Based on the life and career of nineteenth-century novelist George...
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  • Eve's Ransom. [A novel.] Eve's Ransom. [A novel.]
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    Eve's Ransom. [A novel.]

    Title: Eve's Ransom. [A novel.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research...
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  • The Emancipated. A novel. The Emancipated. A novel.
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    The Emancipated. A novel.

    Title: The Emancipated. A novel.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research...
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  • The Crown of Life. The Crown of Life.
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    The Crown of Life.

    Title: The Crown of Life.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries...
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