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Gissing’s first novel displays the rift between a set of theoretical allegiances and more immediately felt experience that will be a continuing feature of his work. Yet it is precisely the implications and energy inherent in this rift that enliven the novel’s otherwise intolerable length and gaucheness.
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Notes
Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship (Penguin, 1971) p. 214.
Edith Sichel, ‘Two Philanthropic Novelists: Mr. Walter Besant and Mr. George Gissing’, Murray’s Magazine III (Apr 1888) 506–18; reprinted in Gissing: The Critical Heritage ed. Pierre Coustillas and Colin Partridge (1972) pp. 114–26.
Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction (1884) p. 30.
Frederic Harrison, The Present and the Future: A Positivist Address (1880) p. 41.
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (1958) pp. 175–6.
Ben Tillett, Memories and Reflections (1931) p. 77.
Paul Sporn, ‘Gissing’s Demos: Late Victorian Values and the Displacement of Conjugal Love’, Studies in the Novel I (fall 1969) 335.
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Poole, A. (1975). Gissing’s Early Social Novels, 1880–1887. In: Gissing in Context. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02530-5_3
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