Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Why does Gissing Matter?....Pages 1-29
New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City....Pages 31-40
Buildings, Residences, and Mansions: George Gissing’s ‘prejudice against flats’....Pages 41-62
Gissing’s Saturnalia: Urban Crowds, Carnivalesque Subversion and the Crisis of Paternal Authority....Pages 63-74
Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle....Pages 75-85
Between Dreamworlds and Real Worlds: Gissing’s London....Pages 86-99
‘Citizens of London?’ Working Women, Leisure and Urban Space in Gissing’s 1880s Fiction....Pages 100-108
‘Counter-jumpers’ and ‘Queens of the Street’: The Shop Girl of Gissing and his Contemporaries....Pages 109-117
Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing’s New Woman Musician....Pages 118-128
‘Children of the Street’: Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing’s London....Pages 129-138
‘Woman as an Invader’: Travel and Travail in George Gissing’s The Odd Women....Pages 139-151
The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the ‘New’ Suburban....Pages 152-161
‘Muddy depths’: The Thames in Gissing’s Fiction....Pages 162-170
‘Amid the Dear Old Horrors’: Memory, London, and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft ....Pages 171-179
Gissing’s Urban Neurasthenia....Pages 180-188
In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City....Pages 189-198
George Gissing’s Scrapbook: A Storehouse of ‘Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain’....Pages 199-211
Gissing: A Life in Death — A Cavalcade of Gissing Criticism in the Last Hundred Years....Pages 212-225