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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 7
The many-sided comedy of George Gissing’s The Nether World

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
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
Published online: 28 November 2019
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