George Moore

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Biographical Materials

• Biography
• A Moore Chronology
• Moore's home in London

Works

• A list of his writng
• An Introduction to his work

Theme and subject

• Esther Waters — a prototype of working-class New Woman
• The evils of gambling

Genre, mode, and style

• Esther Waters and New Woman fiction

Plot and structure

• Esther Waters and stream-of-consciousness narration

Literary Relations

• Moore and the sensation novel
• Moore and Pater
• Moore and Victorian Best-Sellers, 1862-1901
• Influence of Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert
• Esther Waters compared to Flaubert, Turgenev, James, Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf
• Esther Waters and Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Artistic Relations

• Moore's praise of James Guthrie

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