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Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England' (2010)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2010). Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England'. In A. Gasiorek, & P. Parrinder (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Reinvention of The British and Irish Novel 1880-1940 (118-132). Oxford: Oxford University Press

This chapter situates three major exponents of provincial fiction, Thomas Hardy, ‘Mark Rutherford’ and Arnold Bennett, in relation to ideas about provincialism, and changes in the relationship between the metropolitan centre and provincial and region... Read More about Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England'.

Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction (2010)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2010). Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction. In C. Huguet (Ed.), Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing’s Imagination (173-188). Equilibris

This chapter revisits George Gissing’s handling of reading practices within the realist frame of his practice as a novelist to show the variety of reality effects linked to reading matter and the reading subject – the choice of books, their location... Read More about Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction.