Evidence: | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Jan 1876 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: most often London | ||||||||||
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Reader: | George Gissing |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 22 Nov 1857 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author |
Religion: | none |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21269 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Michael Collie | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Alien Art. A Critical Study of George Gissing's Novels | |
Place of Publication: | Folkestone | |
Date of Publication: | 1979 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 9 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Michael Collie, The Alien Art. A Critical Study of George Gissing's Novels (Folkestone, 1979), p. 9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21269, accessed: 07 December 2023 |
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