The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7 (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
498
Utgivningsdatum
1995-09-01
Upplaga
1
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)/Mattheisen, Paul F. (contributions)/Young, Arthur C. (contributions)
Illustratör/Fotograf
notes Illustrations
Illustrationer
Illustrations, notes
Volymtitel
v. 7 1897-99
Dimensioner
234 x 159 x 34 mm
Vikt
885 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
9 v. :
ISBN
9780821411230

The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7

18971899

Inbunden,  Engelska, 1995-09-01
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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 a handful written 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. Before 1898, Gissings life could not be called happy or content, but during the years that this volume coversDecember 1897-December 1899his life took another radical turn. Still emotionally vulnerable from his wretched marriage, he met the most genuine love of his life, Gabrielle Fleury, a French woman familiar with his writings. Through his passionate letters to her, he ecstatically welcomed her into his life, and in a private ceremony of union in France he married her in May, 1899 (though illegallyhe was still married to his second wife who was in England.) Gabrielles love supported Gissing the rest of his life, until his early death in 1903. Earlier defeats that he felt were his doom were temporarily overcome at this time by his intimacy with Gabrielle. And he continued to write as actively as he could, producing at this time The Crown of Life, a celebration of his rediscovery of the power of love.
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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.