New Grub Street - Brossura

Gissing, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1551115026 ISBN 13: 9781551115023

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2007

Riassunto

New Grub Street is the only one of George Gissing’s two dozen novels never to have gone out of print, and has long been recognized as the most important novel of the nineteenth century on the subject of the writing professions. Indeed, no novel in the English tradition even remotely approximates the thoroughness, sophistication, and clear-sightedness with which New Grub Street explores the social and economic contexts in which writing, publishing, and reading take place. The critical introduction to this edition gives an account of Gissing’s life and times and an overview of the most important stylistic and thematic features of New Grub Street; special attention is given to the writing and publishing professions in late-Victorian England, emphasizing the range of social and economic positions that writers occupied during the period.

This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical material on the literary world of London through the centuries, authorship as a profession, and Gissing’s life and work.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Stephen Arata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of the Broadview edition of William Morris’s News from Nowhere (2002).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1551115026
• ISBN 13: 9781551115023
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 559
• Redattore: Arata Stephen
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile