The Paradox of Gissing

GRYLLS, David

ISBN 10: 0048000817 / ISBN 13: 9780048000811

Published by Allen & Unwin, London, 1986

About this Item

Tight, clean copy of this review copy with slip laid-in; 226pp.

Seller Inventory # 906243

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Paradox of Gissing
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0048000817
• ISBN 13: 9780048000811
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Review Copy with Slip laid in
• Seller catalogs:
  • Firsts
  • Literary Criticism
  • Reference

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Synopsis

First published 1986. In this book the author refutes the notion that Gissing’s weaknesses as a novelist are associated with defects in his personality and argues that the power of his writing stemmed from his divided character. Gissing’s permanently divided emotions on poverty, reformism, women and art were, at his best, the reason he could write so convincingly about them. This analysis of Gissing’s imagination and the fictional development in his major works shows that the effectiveness of his novels depends largely on these dichotomies and opposites. This work covers the whole range of Gissing’s writing and relates it to its social and intellectual milieu.