George Gissing: An Overview

• An Introduction and Appreciation
• Biographical Materials
  • A Brief Biography
  • Gissing and Clara Collet
  • A Gissing Chronology
• Works
  • Works
  • Gissing's Letters
  • A Gissing Sampler
• Literary Relations
• Artistic Relations
• The Cultural Context: Victorianism
• Gender Matters
• Portraits in Charcoal: George Gissing's Women (summary)
• Religion and Philosophy
  • Religion in Victorian England: An Overview
  • Victorian Skepticism and Religious Doubt
  • Agnosticism
• Social and Political Contexts
• Science and Technology

Theme and Technique

• Themes
• Characterization
• Imagery, Symbolism, and Motif
• Structure
• Narration and Point of View
• Setting
• Genre and Mode

Bibibliographical and web materials

• Bibliography
• Related Web Ressources
• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of Gissings's works

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Last modified 5 January 2004