Unsettled Accounts

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Anthem Press, Dec 17, 2003 - Literary Criticism - 200 pages
Simon 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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Contents

Gissings Critical Writing
36
The Early Novels
63
Gissings Major Phase
91
The Later Novels
121
Notes
149
Bibliography
177
Index
192
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TitleUnsettled Accounts
Anthem nineteenth century studies
AuthorSimon J. James
EditorSimon J James, Dr
PublisherAnthem Press, 2003
ISBN1843317737, 9781843317739
Length200 pages
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