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TY - CHAP
T1 - George Gissing’s Thyrza and Lambeth
T2 - Amid the Backways of Lambeth
AU - Hutcheon, Rebecca
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - George Gissing’s fifth published novel Thyrza (1887) has a wide geographical scope, stretching from Ullswater in the north and Eastbourne in the south, and this north-south trajectory is paralleled, microcosmically, in London’s geography. In its distinct city-country divide (also delineating class boundaries), the novel reflects its direct predecessor Demos (1886). But in its presentation of city as region, it also looks towards its successor The Nether World (1889). The bulk of the plot focuses on “A Corner of Lambeth”. It is frequently understood as Gissing’s most Dickensian novel and the protagonist, Thyrza Trent, nominally recalls Nell Trent, heroine of The Old Curiosity Shop (1840). If the novel is Dickensian in tone, it nonetheless subverts readerly expectations of a mid-Victorian Bildungsromanin that, for the protagonist at least, experience leads to social and geographical return not progression.
AB - George Gissing’s fifth published novel Thyrza (1887) has a wide geographical scope, stretching from Ullswater in the north and Eastbourne in the south, and this north-south trajectory is paralleled, microcosmically, in London’s geography. In its distinct city-country divide (also delineating class boundaries), the novel reflects its direct predecessor Demos (1886). But in its presentation of city as region, it also looks towards its successor The Nether World (1889). The bulk of the plot focuses on “A Corner of Lambeth”. It is frequently understood as Gissing’s most Dickensian novel and the protagonist, Thyrza Trent, nominally recalls Nell Trent, heroine of The Old Curiosity Shop (1840). If the novel is Dickensian in tone, it nonetheless subverts readerly expectations of a mid-Victorian Bildungsromanin that, for the protagonist at least, experience leads to social and geographical return not progression.
KW - Gissing
KW - Dickens
KW - London
KW - Modernity
KW - Naturalism
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
BT - The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
A2 - Tambling, Jeremy
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -