George Gissing : the critical heritage / edited by Pier Coustillas and Colin Partridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coustillas, Pierre.

Partridge, Colin.

Series:

Critical Heritage

Critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gissing, George, 1857-1903--History and criticism.

Gissing, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (824 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon [England] : Routledge, 1995, c1972.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The <EM>Critical Heritage</EM> 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.<BR>The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism fr

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; General Editor's Preface; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Text; Workers in the Dawn (June 1880); 1. Gissing on his own book, open letter, June 1880; 2. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, June 1880; 3. Frederic Harrison, letter, July 1880; 4. George Saintsbury, Academy, July 1880; 5. Unsigned review, Manchester Examiner and Times, September 1880; 6. Unsigned review, Spectator, September 1880; 7. George Meredith on Gissing, 1884, 1885, 1897, 1899; The Unclassed (June 1884, November 1895)

8. Unsigned review, Evening News, June 18849. Arthur R. R. Barker, Academy, June 1884; 10. Unsigned review, Graphic, September 1884; 11. Unsigned, 'Gissing the Rod', Punch, January 1885; 12. Gissing's Preface to the second edition of The Unclassed, October 1895; 13. Unsigned review, Daily Chronicle, December 1895; 14. Unsigned review, Buffalo Courier, as reprinted in the Literary News, July 1896; Demos (March 1886); 15. Unsigned review, The Times, April 1886; 16. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, April 1886; 17. Unsigned review, Spectator, April 1886

18. Unsigned review, Guardian (London), April 188619. Unsigned review, Scottish Review, April 1886; 20. Unsigned review, New York Daily Tribune, May 1886; 21. Julia Wedgwood, Contemporary Review, August 1886; Isabel Clarendon (June 1886); 22. Unsigned review, St. Stephen's Review, July 1886; 23. Unsigned review, Scotsman, July 1886; 24. James Ashcroft Noble, Academy, July 1886; 25. Unsigned review, Saturday Review, July 1886; 26. Unsigned review, Guardian (London), September 1886; Thyrza (April 1887); 27. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, May 1887; 28. Unsigned review, Whitehall Review, May 1887

29. Unsigned review, Saturday Review, June 188730. Unsigned review, Murray's Magazine, June 1887; 31. Unsigned review, Guardian (London), August 1887; 32. 'George Gissing as a Novelist', Pall Mall Gazette, June 1887; 33. Edith Sichel on Gissing, Murray's Magazine, April 1888; A Life's Morning (November 1888); 34. Unsigned review, Saturday Review, December 1888; 35. Unsigned review, Athenaeum, December 1888; 36. Unsigned review, Court Journal, December 1888; 37. Unsigned review, Guardian (London), January 1889; 38. Unsigned review, Spectator, February 1889; The Nether World (April 1889)

39. Introduction to The Nether World, Colonial Edition, 189040. Unsigned review, Court Journal, April 1889; 41. Unsigned review, Whitehall Review, May 1889; 42. Unsigned review, Guardian (London), May 1889; 43. F. W. Farrar, Contemporary Review, September 1889; 44. Unsigned review, Nation (New York), February 1890; 45. Eduard Bertz on Gissing, Deutsche Presse, November 1889; The Emancipated (March 1890); 46. Unsigned review, Illustrated London News, April 1890; 47. G. Barnett Smith, Academy, April 1890; 48. Unsigned review, Saturday Review, June 1890

49. Unsigned review, Westminster Review, September 1890

Notes:

"First published in 1972"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-17472-9

0-415-13468-4

1-315-00460-7

1-136-17465-6

9781315004600

OCLC:

851156106