A Garland For Gissing

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1477-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

The crown upon the continuing vitality and popularity of Gissing studies in the final decade of the twentieth century was the publication of The Collected Letters of George Gissing (1990-97). The editors of that mammoth undertaking, Paul Mattheisen, Arthur Young and Pierre Coustillas, had long been an inspiration to the younger generation of Gissing scholars, and their presence at the International George Gissing Conference at Amsterdam in September 1999 explained the success of the encounter between Gissing’s older and younger critics.
Ever since the reappraisal of Gissing’s works began to get under way in the early 1960s through the publication of many new editions of the works and ground-breaking critical studies by Arthur Young, Jacob Korg and Pierre Coustillas, it has become impossible to ignore the high status he now enjoys by rights, which resembles the position granted to him long ago by his contemporaries, as one of the leading English novelists of the late nineteenth century.
This collection of essays is remarkable for its emphasis on women’s issues addressed in Gissing’s novels, ranging from the inadequate education of women to the struggle for greater female independence, within and without marriage. Several contributors seek to define the precise nature and quality of Gissing’s achievement and his place in the canon and, in the process, they open up fascinating, new opportunities for future research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Postmus, Bouwe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bouwe POSTMUS: Introduction
1. Pierre COUSTILLAS: Gissing the European
2. Simon JAMES: Experiments in Realism: How to Read a George Gissing Novel
3. Michael CRONIN: Gissing’s Criticism of Dickens
4. Barbara RAWLINSON: Buried Treasure: George Gissing’s Short Fiction
5. Lucy CRISPIN: Living in Exile: Self-Image, Social Role and the Problem of Identity
6. Maria Teresa CHIALANT: The Feminization of the City in Gissing’s Fiction: The Streetwalker, the Flâneuse, the Shopgirl
7. Emanuela ETTORRE: Sensational Gissing? Denzil Quarrier and the “Politics” of Dissimulation
8. Constance HARSH: Women with Ideas: Gissing’s The Odd Women and the New Woman Novel
9. Liz HEDGECOCK: Men at Work: Gender, Class and Ideologies of Employment in In the Year of Jubilee
10. Sandra R. WOODS: Dangerous Minds: the Education of Women in Gissing’s Marriage Quartet
11. Emma LIGGINS: Idiot Heroines and Worthless Women? Gissing’s 1890s Fiction and Female Independence
12. Arlene YOUNG: Eve Madeley and Rhoda Nunn: Gissing’s Doubled Enigma
13. David GLOVER: “This Spectacle of a World’s Wonder”: Commercial Culture and Urban Space in Gissing’s In the Year of Jubilee
14. Anthony CURTIS: Gissing and the Lushingtons
15. Christine HUGUET: “Written, too, in exile!”: A Metatextual Approach to Born in Exile
16. Stephen OGDEN: Darwinian Scepticism in George Gissing’s Born in Exile
17. Lewis D. MOORE: Deception, Violence, and the Criminal Act in George Gissing’s Fiction
18. L. R. LEAVIS: Gissing in Context
19. Diana MALTZ: Gissing as Thwarted Aesthete
20. Fumio HOJOH: Gissing and His Japanese Readers
21. Jacob KORG: Gissing and Ancient Rome
22. Russell PRICE and Francesco BADOLATO: Social Subordination and Superiority in Gissing’s “A Daughter of the Lodge”
23. John SLOAN: Gissing and Hogarth
24. Raymond L. BAUBLES JR.: The Bankruptcies of the Nation in Meredith’s One of Our Conquerors and Gissing’s The Whirlpool
25. William GREENSLADE: Writing against Himself: Gissing and the Lure of Modernity in In the Year of Jubilee
Selected Index