Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Why Does Gissing Matter?; J.Spiers New Woman on Grub Street: Art in the City; M.Clarke Buildings, Residences and Mansions: George Gissing's 'Prejudice Against Flats'; R.Dennis Gissing's Saturnalia: Urban Crowds, Carnivalesque Subversion and the Crisis of Paternal Authority; L.Villa Gissing, Literary Bohemia, and the Metropolitan Circle; J.Sloan Between Dream Worlds and Real Worlds: Gissing's London; S.McCracken 'Citizens of London?' Working Women, Leisure and Urban Space in Gissing's 1880's Fiction; E.Liggins 'Counter-jumpers' and 'Queens of the Street': The shop girl of Gissing and his contemporaries; E.F.Evans Rebellion in the Metropolis: George Gissing's New Woman Musician; L.Vorachek 'Children of the Street': Reconfiguring Gender in Gissing's London; M.E.Mitchell 'Woman as an Invader': Travel and Travail in George Gissing's The Odd Women ; J.A.McQuail The Clash of Space and Culture: Gissing and the Rise of the 'New' Suburban; L.Baker Whelan 'Muddy Depths': The Thames in Gissing's Fiction; C.Huguet 'Amid the Dear Old Horrors' Memory, London and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft ; M.Hammond Gissing's Urban Euthenasia; J.Halperin In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City; S.J.James George Gissing's Scrapbook: a Storehouse of 'Elements of Drama to be Fused and Minted in his Brain; B.Postmus Gissing: A Life in Death-a Cavalcade of Gissing Criticism in the Last Hundred Years; P.Coustillas