Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• KOTCH, AMANDA

Titel

George Gissing and the Fictional Work of Biography

Ist Teil von

• Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900, 2015-09, Vol.55 (4), p.879-897

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay argues that George Gissing develops his critical ideas about realism by correlating the balance of life and work in biography with the realist novelist's negotiation between external details sind subjective impressions in fiction. In The Unclassed (1884), New Grub Street (1891), and Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898), Gissing recognizes the realist aesthetic as vulnerable to the imaginative constraints of biography. Yet these works also suggest that the late Victorian conversation about realism involved a reimagining of biography's critical uses that would account for the lives of genres as well as authors.