While most recent criticism focuses on Gissing's works as biographical narratives, this work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art.
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In his George Gissing: Both books contained numerous biographical errors: It is certainly more resilient than with most other authors.
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New Critical manifestoes on the autonomy of the artefact appear to have left Gissing studies untouched; more recent poststructuralist annulments of the author have had only limited impact. The practice of treating Gissing's books biographically could only become well established, of course, once the facts of his biography were known. George Gissing and Biographical Criticism most reviewers were not anxious to reach beyond the works. Gissing was the only first-rank writer, declared the Echo in , "about whom the outside world has never evinced any unusual curiosity.
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As well as some inaccurate "interviews" and feature articles,4 we can easily find contemporary reviews which indulge in biographical guesswork or personality-inference. The former venture was riskier and more often wrong. The Victorian clerk's lot in life. Was George Grossmith a drug addict? Was Mr Pooter Jack the Ripper? Who were the Grossmiths?
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Who wrote the 'Diary'? Information about obtaining 'FIRE'. Some thoughts about the Woomera Archives. Woomera dream turns to dust article. Huxley's 'Point Counter Point': Malouf's 'An Imaginary Life': Novels promoting Oxford as 'Shakespeare': Starke's 'Twist in the Tale': The End of Parapsychology?: A 'literary' working man 'Thyrza'.
A man of private means 'Sleeping Fires'. A night market in the slums 'Workers in the Dawn'. A politician on social realities 'Denzil Quarrier'. A sunset at Athens 'New Grub Street'. Biffen's suicide 'New Grub Street'. Burying the poor 'Demos'. Crouch End horrors 'The Nether World'.
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North London Squalor 'Thyrza'. On newspapers 'The Crown of Life'.
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Open air sex 'In the Year of Jubilee'. Suburban blight 'In the Year of Jubilee'. Suburban female ferocities 'In the Year of Jubilee'.
The pains of writer's block 'New Grub Street'. The workrooms of Clerkenwell 'The Nether World'. Wonderful visions 'By the Ionian Sea'.
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