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George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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George Gissing's work reflects his observations of fin-de-siecle
London life. Influenced by the French naturalist school, his
realist representations of urban culture testify to the
significance of the city for the development of new class and
gender identities, particularly for women. Liggins's study, which
considers standard texts such as The Odd Women, New Grub Street,
and The Nether World as well as lesser known short works, examines
Gissing's fiction in relation to the formation of these new
identities, focusing specifically on debates about the working
woman. From the 1880s onward, a new genre of urban fiction
increasingly focused on work as a key aspect of the modern woman's
identity, elements of which were developed in the New Woman fiction
of the 1890s. Showing his fascination with the working woman and
her narrative potential, Gissing portrays women from a wide variety
of occupations, ranging from factory girls, actresses, prostitutes,
and shop girls to writers, teachers, clerks, and musicians. Liggins
argues that by placing the working woman at the center of his
narratives, rather than at the margins, Gissing made an important
contribution to the development of urban fiction, which
increasingly reflected current debates about women's presence in
the city.
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