George Gissing

Martin Ryle is Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the Univesity of Sussex.

Contents: Introduction: Gissing's critical contexts, Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor; Blatherwicks and busybodies: Gissing on the culture of philanthropic slumming, Diana Maltz; Her appearance in public: sexual danger, Urban Space and the Working Woman, Emma Liggins; 'Just a Morsel to Stay Your Appetite': Gissing and the Cultural Politics of Food, Scott McCracken; The Strange Case of Godwin Peak: Double Consciousness in Born in Exile, Jenny Bourne Taylor; Sex and the City: Gissing, Helmholtz, Freud, David Glover; The Discontents of Everyday Life: Civilization and the Pathology of Masculinity in The Whirlpool, Simon J. James; Whirlpools of Modernity: European Naturalism and the Urban Phantasmagoria, Deborah Parsons; 'To show a man of letters': Gissing, cultural authority and literary modernism, Martin Ryle; New Grub Street's self-consciousness, Christina Lupton and Tilman Reitz; The voice of the unclassed: Gissing and 20th-century English fiction, Patrick Parrinder; Index.