Amid the Dear Old Horrors: memory, London, and literary labour in 'The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft'

Hammond, Mary (2006). Amid the Dear Old Horrors: memory, London, and literary labour in 'The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft'. In: Spiers, John ed. Gissing and the city: cultural crisis and the making of books in Late Victorian Engand. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171–179.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524453_14

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Abstract

This chapter examines George Gissing's last novel 'The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft', arguing that it not only manifests a strange nostalgia for the 'horrors' of London and the struggling writer's life so often described by Gissing, but that it also displays proto-Modernist tendencies in its narrative style.

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• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-4039-9772-1, 978-1-4039-9772-2
• Keywords
• George Gissing; Victorian literature; novel production; modernism
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• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Mary Hammond