声明
摘要
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Death and the Intensified Crisis of the Witer's Survival
1.1 Casti,Fasti,and Keats:A Prediction of a Writers Death
1.2 The Striking of the Parish Church Clock:A Symbol of the Writer’s Death
1.3 “Dwellers in the Valley of the Shadow of Books”:A Metaphor for the Writer's Death
Chapter 2 The Change of the Late Nineteenth--century Literary Field
2.1 A Widened Scale of the Literary Field
2.2 The Domination of Mercenary Writers
2.3 The Nature of the Literary Field
Chapter 3 A ‘‘Pathological” Study of the Crisis as Revealed in Four Core Images
3.1 The Workhouse Bell
3.2 The fire
3.3 “The Futllre Aristarchus”
3.4 The “Gfizzled” Horse
Chapter 4 A Cultural Response to the Crisis
4.1 Waymark’s Endeavour to Create a Cultural Role of Writers
4.2 Egremont’s “Cultural Crusade” for Improving Reading Taste
4.3 Ryecroft’s Aspiration for Zest of Life in Writing
Conclusion
Appendix 1 George Gissing’s Books
Appendix 2 A Chronology of George Gissing
Appendix 3 The Six Standards of Education in The Revised Code of Regulations(1872)
References