Titlebook: George Gissing: The Cultural Challenge; John Sloan Book 1989 John Sloan 1989 Charles Dickens.Defoe.English literature.English Studies.fict

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Hogarthian Beginnings,nd specialisation of social and intellectual life: these forces are reflected in the frustrations of the . hero Arthur Golding, and in the failure of the middle-class heroine’s philanthropic ideal of reform through education.

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Empirical Studies in Comparative Politicsks seemed to open possibilities of brilliant promise’, commented one critic shortly after Gissing’s death. ‘The bitterness had become softened, the general protest against the sorry scheme of human things seemed to be passing into a kind of pity for all that suffers, and an acceptance with thankfulness of life’s little pleasures.’.

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Conclusion,ks seemed to open possibilities of brilliant promise’, commented one critic shortly after Gissing’s death. ‘The bitterness had become softened, the general protest against the sorry scheme of human things seemed to be passing into a kind of pity for all that suffers, and an acceptance with thankfulness of life’s little pleasures.’.

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Introduction,t as Gissing’. — would no longer seem to be true. The revival of interest among scholars and critics has laid the basis of a convincing alternative to the traditional view of Gissing as a fascinating failure. A compelling aspect of this general process of rediscovery has been the recognition not onl

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Hogarthian Beginnings,ly associate with the adjective ‘Victorian’ would seem to have a special significance in Gissing’s case. In that year, Gissing published his first novel, ., an impassioned, if structurally diffuse attack on Victorian ideals of progress and social reform. The renewed class antagonisms of the 1870s an

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,Gissing and ‘The People’,ly as successors to the ‘industrial novel’ of the 1840s and 1850s. . as one early reviewer of the novel observed, ‘might have been written by the author of . and of . or of .’.. And yet if Gissing revives many of the recurrent concerns and motifs of the earlier industrial novels, he adds new element

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The Measure of Success: from ,The feeling of spiritual expansion he experienced after his escape from London, as well as the conflicts he felt between his cultural tourism and the realities of the places he visited — these undoubtedly fuelled a

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