The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 6 (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
446
Utgivningsdatum
1994-12-01
Utmärkelser
Winner of Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.
Förlag
Ohio University Press
Medarbetare
Mattheisen, Paul F. (contributions)/Young, Arthur C. (contributions)/Coustillas, Pierre (contributions)/Mattheisen, Paul F. (contributions)/Young, Arthur C. (contributions)/Coustillas, Pierre (contributions)/Mattheisen, Paul F. (contributions)/Young, Arthur C. (contributions)/Coustillas, Pierre (con
Volymtitel
v. 6 1895-97
Dimensioner
237 x 164 x 39 mm
Vikt
958 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
9 v. :
ISBN
9780821410981

The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 6

1895-1897

Inbunden,  Engelska, 1994-12-01
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Gissings career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization. His best known works are New Grub Street (1891) and Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), rich sources of social commentary that reflect a literary transition from the Victorian to the modern period. For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. Now the editors have culled widely scattered sourcesprivate and public collections, journals, newspapers, memoirs, biographies, and sales catalogsto gather and organize Gissings correspondence, including letters to him, and to provide an editorial context. The two and a half years covered in this volume (mid-18951897) continued to be professionally productive for Gissing. He completed a number of novelsSleeping Fires, The Paying Guest, and The Whirlpool. He revised The Unclassed, wrote many short stories, and towards the end of 1897 in Italy he completed a life of Dickens. During these years Gissing was much sought after by editors and by his fellow literati. He solidified friendships with George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, and he formed a new friendship with H. G. Wells. But the letters of this period most poignantly depict Gissings domestic problems and turmoil which eventually led him to break with his second wife, Edith. As the editors write, in the present volume, which begins at a spiritually low point and steadily verges lower until near the very end, one fancies one can see the beginnings of a permanent frame of mind which was to last or to recur to the end of Gissings life: a feeling of ineluctable and undeserved defeat.
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Paul F. Mattheisen is associate professor of English, SUNY, Binghamton. Arthur C. Young is professor emeritus of English at Russell Sage College. Pierre Coustillas is professor of English, University of Lille, France.