In:Renaissance Man: Essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson
Edited by Tommi Alho, Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 11] 2019
► pp. 173–196
Chapter 7The many-sided comedy of George Gissing’s The Nether World
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.11.07fin
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.11.07fin
Article outline
- Laughter ignored
- A young London writer on a hyperbolic tram ride
- Aesthete and humourist: Gissing’s less earnest sides
- Studied witticisms: The overly ironic narrator of The Nether World
- Clem Peckover: Celebratory comedy, fabliau-style
- Warmth, cruelty, and visuality
- Conclusion: The laughing realist
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