Unsettled AccountsSimon J. James examines how Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms - moral, intellectual, familial and erotic - is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification. |
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Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing Simon J. James Limited preview - 2003 |
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