Unsettled accounts

Informationen zum Autor Simon J. James Klappentext Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms - moral, intellectual, familial and erotic ? is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Telling Money; 2. Dickens in Memory: Gissing's Critical Writing; 3. Poverty and Imagination: The Early Novels; 4. The Price of Culture: Gissing's Major Phase; 5. Gissing's City of Women: The Later Novels; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Simon J James, Simon J. James
• Assisted by: Simon J James (Editor), Simon J. James (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2003
• EAN: 9781843311089
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-108-9
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth Century Stud; Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies