Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work is particularly linked to 'the city' and the crisis of urban experience, especially in the archetypal modern imperial city.

Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shocks of the new urban environment, and literary and artistic responses. It does so through interdisciplinary discussion of the novels of George Gissing, whose work is particularly linked to 'the city' and the crisis of urban experience, especially in the archetypal modern imperial city.

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