...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...

... persistent and compelling presence of that self in the poet’s work. M. DORNBUSH University of Washington JEAN Gissing: A Life in Books. By JOHN HALPERIN.Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvi + 426...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... Despite a great deal of activity in the Gissing vineyards in recent years (forty- two Gissing-related volumes have appeared in the years 1966-79-twenty-nine editions and thirteen secondary works), no really first-rate critical study of the novelist has been published since 1974, when Gillian...

..., 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...

... in the Gissing vineyards in recent years (forty- two Gissing-related volumes have appeared in the years 1966-79-twenty-nine editions and thirteen secondary works), no really first-rate critical study of the novelist has been published since 1974, when Gillian Tindall’s book The Born Exile appeared...

... on which the book is founded), the reader continu- ally senses the elusive yet persistent and compelling presence of that self in the poet’s work. M. DORNBUSH University of Washington JEAN Gissing: A Life in Books...

...Hunter G. Hannum Gerhard Loose. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1961. Pp. xi + 200. DM 10.50. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 114 Reviews and some astute critical pieces on Gissing’s work by Wells. In Gabrielle’s letters a new...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... that serve as the primary objects, Reader’s book works accretively, through the collection and surprising juxtaposition of figures. For instance, Gissing appears alongside Barthes as two writers who turn to the note as the solution to the problem of realism. Or, in an intriguing chapter, Hopkins...

... 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...

...). And after noting Gissing’s remark that Dickens was “a man who allows nothing to balk his enjoyment of life,” he quotes Robert Garis’s gloss on Gissing: “I would . . . say that the source of Dickens’s enjoyment here is not only the scene before him, but his own skill in render- ing that scene...

.... 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...