New Grub Street


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New Grub Street

place of ruthless contest among moneymongers. [Br. Lit.: New Grub Street, Magill I, 647–649]
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Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Orwell had read only a few of the novels, but "merely on the strength of New Grub Street, Demos, and The Odd Women I am ready to maintain that England has produced very few better novelists."
Remembering George Gissing
The present paper attempts to read Gissing's New Grub Street as the product of a crisis in the British literary system towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Naturalism and modes of literary production in George Gissing's New Grub Street
No better corrective may be found than George Gissing's New Grub Street, the The Information of its day (Amis had to have had it in mind) and still a startlingly pertinent picture of the literary life.
Slouching towards Grubnet: the author in the Age of Publicity
On 24 April 1887 he mid his brother Algernon about a planned-but-never-completed work called "Sandray the Sophist"--"mainly a satire on the modern cultivators of literature, & more particularly periodical literature"--and one sees Gissing's first tentative approach towards the world of New Grub Street, which he would turn to after his subsequent two novels.
The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Vol. 3: 1886-1888, & Vol. 4: 1889-1891
A memoir of Allen's encounters with the leading writers of the day, As I Walked down New Grub Street, appeared in 1982.
Allen, Walter (Ernest)
Gissing's love of the classics, the hardships of his life, and his mixed idealism and pessimism are reflected in his best - known novels, The Nether World (1881) and New Grub Street. These books are characterized by their realism and psychological acuteness, and by the subtlety, grace, and subdued passion of their style.
Gissing, George (Robert)
Among their topics are the culture of philanthropic slumming; sexual danger, urban space, and the working woman; double consciousness in Born in Exile; civilization and the pathology of masculinity in The Whirlpool; European naturalism and the urban phantasmagoria; cultural authority and literary modernism; and New Grub Street's self-consciousness.
George Gissing; voices of the unclassed
Yet his personal life was, until the last few years, mostly unhappy; twice involved in miserable marriages, he led the life of near poverty and constant drudgery that he described in the novels New Grub Street, 3 vol.
Gissing, George (Robert)
George Gissing's novel New Grub Street (1891) also deals with London literary life.
Grub Street
New Grub Street Realistic novel by George GISSING , published in three volumes in 1891.
New Grub Street
New Grub Street was an 1891 work by which novelist?
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New Grub Street: The 1901 Revised Text by George Gissing.
New Grub Street: The 1901 Revised Text

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