The Heroic Life Of George Gissing 1857 1888
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The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1857 1888
Author | : Pierre Coustillas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 1848931719 |
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George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels, over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work.--From publisher website.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part I
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Author | : Pierre Coustillas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1020653423 |
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The Heroic Life of George Gissing 1888 1897
Author | : Pierre Coustillas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 1848931735 |
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This 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.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing
Author | : Pierre Coustillas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2019-12-14 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0367875896 |
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This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing's early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing Part I
Author | : Pierre Coustillas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317304098 |
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This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing’s early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
The Heroic Life of George Gissing
Author | : Pierre Coustillas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 036787590X |
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George Gissing (1857-1903) lived a life worthy of the plot from one of his own novels. An exceptionally gifted man, born into relatively genteel comfort, he nonetheless managed to enter into two disastrous marriages with working-class women, got thrown out of university for stealing, spent a month doing hard labour in prison and died before the age of fifty. It is all the more surprising then, that he still managed to write twenty-three novels and over a hundred short stories, as well as works of literary criticism and a travelogue. This ambitious three-volume biography examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards. Press archives from England, America, the former Colonies, France and Germany have all been consulted. This approach, by the foremost authority on Gissing, allows new insights into his life and work. Part II assesses the period of Gissing's greatest authorial triumphs. His most critically acclaimed works, The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893) date from this time. His new-found commercial success even allowed him to give up teaching and concentrate on being a full-time writer. He was also able to spend time travelling and made three journeys to Italy; in 1888-9, in 1889-90 (including a visit to Greece) and in 1897 to Calabria. Always an autobiographical author, Gissing's personal life is here explicitly interwoven with the topics he writes on. Gissing married Edith Underwood in 1891, with whom he had two sons. His books from this period focus on the situation of women and the commercialization of the literary world. He was particularly unconcerned with writing to please his public and found the demands of his publishers to be a constant source of ill-feeling. Indeed, the only criticism that interested Gissing was that which came from the cultural intelligentsia - from those who could distinguish 'between diamond and paste'. Book jacket.
George Gissing and the Place of Realism
Author | : Rebecca Hutcheon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781527571419 |
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This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.
Literature and Revolution
Author | : Owen Holland |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2022-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781978821934 |
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The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.