George Gissing and the Woman Question Convention and Dissent
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Christine Huguet is a Senior Lecturer at Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, France. She has edited volumes of essays on Gissing, George Moore and Charles Dickens. Simon J. James is Professor of Victorian Literature at the Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK. He is the author of Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing.A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2013 A Baker & Taylor Literary Essentials Title ’A luminous, wide-ranging examination of the Victorian novelist George Gissing’s relation to various issues related to the conditions, concerns, and representation of women in late-Victorian Britain, George Gissing and the Woman Question has numerous strengths, among them a fresh and searching consideration of a number of lesser-known fictional works by Gissing. An indispensable collection for Gissing scholars and critics of nineteenth-century British fiction’. Richard A. Kaye, Hunter College/The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, author of The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction 'This collection of essays ... in examining Gissing’s most important novels and a selection of his short fiction, begin[s] to produce a more holistic picture of the author’s portrayals of women and the woman question, without attempting to diminish the complexity or to ignore the variety of those portrayals.' Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies