1st Edition

George Gissing The Critical Heritage

Edited By Pierre Coustillas, Collin Partridge Copyright 1996
582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge

584 Pages
by Routledge

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Workers in the Dawn; Chapter 1 Gissing on his Own Book; Chapter 2 Unsigned Review, Athenaeum; Chapter 3 Frederic Harrison: Letter to George Gissing; Chapter 4 George Saintsbury, Academy; Chapter 5 Unsigned Review, Manchester Examiner and Times; Chapter 6 Unsigned Review, Spectator; Chapter 7 George Meredith on Gissing; Part 2 The Unclassed; Chapter 8 Unsigned Review, Evening News; Chapter 9 Arthur R. R. Barker, Academy; Chapter 10 Unsigned Review, Graphic; Chapter 11 Unsigned, ‘Gissing the Rod’, Punch; Chapter 12 Gissing’s Preface to the Second Edition of The Unclassed; Chapter 13 Unsigned Review, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 14 Unsigned Review, Buffalo Courier, as Reprinted in the Literary News; Part 3 Demos; Chapter 15 Unsigned Review, The Times; Chapter 16 Unsigned Review, Athenaeum; Chapter 17 Unsigned Review, Spectator; Chapter 18 Unsigned Review, Guardian (London); Chapter 19 Unsigned Review, Scottish Review; Chapter 20 Unsigned Review, New York Daily Tribune; Chapter 21 Julia Wedgwood, Contemporary Review; Part 4 Isabel Clarendon; Chapter 22 Unsigned Review, St. Stephen’s Review; Chapter 23 Unsigned Review, Scotsman; Chapter 24 James Ashcroft Noble, Academy; Chapter 25 Unsigned Review, Saturday Review; Chapter 26 Unsigned Review, Guardian (London); Part 5 Thyrza; Chapter 27 Unsigned Review, Athenaeum; Chapter 28 Unsigned Review, Whitehall Review; Chapter 29 Unsigned Review, Saturday Review; Chapter 30 Unsigned Review, Murray’s Magazine; Chapter 31 Unsigned Review, Guardian (London); Chapter 32 ‘George Gissing as a Novelist’, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 33 Edith Sichel on Gissing, Murray’s Magazine; Part 6 A Life’s Morning; Chapter 34 Unsigned Review, Saturday Review; Chapter 35 Unsigned Review, Athenaeum; Chapter 36 Unsigned Review, Court Journal; Chapter 37 Unsigned Review, Guardian (London); Chapter 38 Unsigned Review, Spectator; Part 7 The Nether World; Chapter 39 Introduction to The Nether World; Chapter 40 Unsigned Review, Court Journal;

Biography

Pierre Coustillas