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

Spiers, J.

Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work is particularly linked to 'the city' and the crisis of urban experience, especially in the archetypal modern imperial city.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-11-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403997722

DOI: 10.1057/9780230524453

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 225