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基本説明
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. Coustillas's exhaustive research is based on all the known surviving Gissing correspondence, Gissing's works and every piece of literary criticism on Gissing from 1880 onwards.
Full Description
This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing chronologically and in close detail. Part I covers Gissing's early life up until his establishment as a writer of moderate critical success.
Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 Ancestry, Childhood and Family Life (November 1857-December 1870); Chapter 2 Alderley Edge and Manchester (January 1871-August 1876); Chapter 3 The American Experiment (September 1876-October 1877); Chapter 4 Penury in London (October 1877-June 1880); Chapter 5 On the Way to Professional Writing (July 1880-August 1882); Chapter 6 Defying Mrs Grundy (September 1882-June 1884); Chapter 7 Between Two Worlds (June 1884-April 1886); Chapter 8 A Short-Lived Success (April 1886-September 1888);