Portraits in Charcoal

George Gissing's Women

By:

James Haydock

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Paperback / softback

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Half biography and half critical study, this book about George Gissing is for the general reader. It draws a parallel between the women in Gissing's life and the women in his novels. His books span the last two decades of the nineteenth century and are memorable for their portraits of women. Only a few women played active roles in Gissing's life, but all exerted a lasting influence. Their imprint allowed him to portray women vividly and with unerring realism, though at times in variable tones of gray...in charcoal. Gissing's feminine portraiture, rendered in shades of somber experience, is one of the most striking features of his work and one of the most valuable for the reader of today. It derived from his intense and abiding interest in the women of his time and the way they lived their lives. His portraits of women, warm and human, were shaped in all their detail by an essential sympathy that made them neither topical nor contemporary but timeless. Some of the women in his life became models for fictional women as alive today as when he first created them.

Release date Australia

July 23rd, 2004

Author

James Haydock

Pages

316

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Publisher

AuthorHouse

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

AuthorHouse

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9781418450748

Product ID

1870096

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