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Gissing and the city, cultural crisis and the making of books in late Victorian England, edited, and with an introduction by John Spiers

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

Gissing and the city

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edited, and with an introduction by John Spiers

cultural crisis and the making of books in late Victorian England

'Gissing and the City' addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis & aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature & art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, & literary & artistic responses., 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

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