...Alexander Millen Abstract Literary historians often cite George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) as a chronicle of a waning literary scene, but his sentences offer altogether stranger demonstrations of how a threatened form of realism attempts to grasp a radically transformed and transforming...

... the tragedies, King Lear is singled out for a spirited defense. A. C. HAMILTON University of Washington Letters of George Gissing to Eduurd Bertz, 1887-1903. Edited by ARTHURC. YOUNG.New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1961...

...H. T. Webster Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF GEORGE GISSING’S WORKERS IN THE DAWN ON MAUGHAM’S OF HUMAN BONDAGE By H. T. WEBSTER Somerset Maugham has found material for two of his best novels...

...David Grylls Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 DETERMINISM AND DETERMINATION IN GISSING By DAVIDGRYLLS George Gissing was a pessimist who believed in will power. His fiction asserts the futility...

... In the 1890s, George Gissing wrote a series of novels dealing centrally with the problems of marriage and women’s emancipation: The Enzanci- pated (1890), The Odd Women (1893), In the Year of Jubilee (1894), and The Whirlpool (1897). Until the present decade, none of these books has con- tributed...

..., 1986. xiii + 226 pp. $29.95. A musical metaphor may suggest the characteristics of this useful new commentary on George Gissing’s fiction: variations on a theme by Jacob Korg. In 1952, when critics had given only limited attention to the novels of Gissing, Korg finished a dissertation...

... pp. $29.95. A good many unpleasant traits ran through George Gissing’s personality. He was a snob who lost part of his joy in Italy fuming about the cultural level of the English tourists there: “Many . . . are absolute shop-boys and work- girls. How in heaven’s name do they get enough...

... treat the plays only in terms of Christian ideas. Among the tragedies, King Lear is singled out for a spirited defense. A. C. HAMILTON University of Washington Letters of George Gissing to Eduurd Bertz, 1887-1903. Edited by ARTHURC...

..., Boston, Sydney: Allen 8c Unwin, 1986. xiii + 226 pp. $29.95. A musical metaphor may suggest the characteristics of this useful new commentary on George Gissing’s fiction: variations on a theme by Jacob Korg. In 1952, when critics had given only limited attention to the novels...

... Tindall’s book The Born Exile appeared. John Goode’s book is not likely to enhance Gissing’s reputation or stimulate further consideration of his work. George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction is a critical “introduction” to the novelist which attempts to define his “ideas” and show how they worked...

.... John Goode’s book is not likely to enhance Gissing’s reputation or stimulate further consideration of his work. George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction is a critical “introduction” to the novelist which attempts to define his “ideas” and show how they worked their way into his fiction. It has...

.... By JOHN HALPERIN.Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvi + 426 pp. $29.95. A good many unpleasant traits ran through George Gissing’s personality. He was a snob who lost part of his joy in Italy fuming about the cultural level of the English tourists there: “Many...

... Hardy, Samuel Butler, George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling, in a series of very readable essays prefaced by a survey of the “Victorian Flood and Ebb.” The survey is little more than a condensation of materials drawn from the Hammonds, the Webbs, D. C. Somervell, Crane Brinton, G...

... is never made. The book ends with a coda rather than a conclusion, treating love and marriage in late Victorian fic- tion, and the final note is struck with George Gissing’s Odd Women, which can hardly be called a provincial novel in Lucas’s or any other sense. Women do not illuminate his...

... with others, or to imagine alternate forms of collectivity. The ethics of notework become clearest in the book’s readings of a single leaf enclosed in a letter in George Gissing’s notes, a trace of the figure’s negotiations of self, world, and collective. In Reader’s hands, writers’ notebooks become...

.... 21s. net. 95 96 Books Received Korg, Jacob (editor). George Gissing’s Commonplace Book : A Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. New York: New York Public Library, 1962. Pp. 69. $2.50. Olsson...

... 1.00. Collie, Michael. George Gissing: A Bibliography. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1975. xiv + 129 pp. $1 5.00. Dussinger, John A. The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, Studies in English Literature, 80, 1974. 215 pp...

... to society. She gives most of her attention to the major novelists, Thackeray, Dick- ens, Eliot, and Meredith, but the thematic basis of her book allows her to introduce other important figures like Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Gissing, who contributed significantly...

.... Gettmann, Royal A. (editor). George Gissing and H. G. Wells : Their Friend- ship and Correspondence. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 285. $3.50. Goldgar, Bertrand A. The Curse of Party: Swift’s Relations with Addison and Steele. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press...

... in Chaucer’s Allegories. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1963. Pp. viii + 157. $4.50. Kirby, Sheelah (compiler), Patrick Gallagher (editor). The Yeats Country. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. 47. $2.00. Korg, Jacob. George Gissing : A Critical Biography. Seattle...