New Grub Street (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Gissing, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551115026 ISBN 13: 9781551115023

Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2007

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"Few novels detail with such sparkling, bitter intelligence the emotional and financial toll that creating and publishing fiction can take on a writer's life. Yet, for all its bleakness, Gissing's satire remains a compelling read and a bracing book to teach, because it captures, like no other Victorian novel, the strains of innovation and enervation that alternately inspire and beleaguer its weary idealists and cunning pragmatists. New Grub Street has fresh relevance for us, as Stephen Arata's skilful introduction makes clear, because all its major themes--the pressures of commerce, financial precariousness, dwindling interest in literature and print journalism, and concern about maintaining a serious forum for art and ideas--are, if anything, even more urgent matters today." -- Christopher Lane, Northwestern University, author of Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (2004)

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New Grub Street provides a dark, compelling look at the life of a struggling writer in nineteenth-century London.

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• Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1551115026
• ISBN 13: 9781551115023
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 559
• Herausgeber: Arata Stephen