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John . Ed(S): Spiers - Gissing and the City - 9781403997722 - V9781403997722
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Gissing and the City

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Description for Gissing and the City Hardback. Editor(s): Spiers, John. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
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.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403997722
SKU
V9781403997722
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About John . Ed(S): Spiers
MEAGHAN CLARKE Lecturer, Leverhulme Special Research Fellow in the History of Art, University of Sussex, UK PIERRE COUSTILLAS Professor Emeritus, University of Lille, France RICHARD DENNIS Reader in Geography, University College, London, UK ELIZABETH F. EVANS Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA JOHN HALPERIN Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA MARY HAMMOND Lecturer in English, Middlesex University, UK ... Read more

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