New Grub Street

New Grub Street
Title New Grub Street PDF eBook
Author George Gissing
Publisher
Pages 356
Release 1891
Genre Authors
ISBN

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As I Walked Down New Grub Street

As I Walked Down New Grub Street
Title As I Walked Down New Grub Street PDF eBook
Author Walter Ernest Allen
Publisher
Pages 298
Release 1981
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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The Odd Women

The Odd Women
Title The Odd Women PDF eBook
Author George Gissing
Publisher Broadview Press
Pages 416
Release 2021-05-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1770488286

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George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.

The Common Writer

The Common Writer
Title The Common Writer PDF eBook
Author Nigel Cross
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 276
Release 1988-06-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521357210

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This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.

The Great Railway Bazaar

The Great Railway Bazaar
Title The Great Railway Bazaar PDF eBook
Author Paul Theroux
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 406
Release 2006-06-01
Genre Travel
ISBN 054752515X

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The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

Grub

Grub
Title Grub PDF eBook
Author Elise Blackwell
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 2007
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A novel of literary New York follows the lives of a cast of characters including editors, writers, and their friends over a five year period.

Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture

Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture
Title Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture PDF eBook
Author Pat Rogers
Publisher London : Methuen
Pages 458
Release 1972
Genre History
ISBN

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First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term 'Grub Street' has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists - Pope, Swift and Fielding - built a potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances in which the scribblers lived, and the importance of this aspect of their writing. The author first locates the original Grub Street, in what is now the Barbican, and then presents a detailed topographical tour of the surrounding area. With studies of a number of key authors, as well as the modern and metaphorical development of the term 'Grub Street', this book offers comprehensive insight into the nature of Augustan literature and the social conditions and concerns that inspired it.