Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing

by Simon J. James

Book Overview

Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms - moral, intellectual, familial and erotic - is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843311089
• ISBN13: 9781843311089
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.7"