In the Year of Jubilee is the thirteenth novel by English author George Gissing. First published in 1894.
 Title page of the first edition | |
| Author | George Gissing |
|---|---|
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Lawrence & Bullen |
Publication date | 1894 |
In the summer of 1893 Gissing returned to London after living for two years in Exeter, and took lodgings with his second wife at 76 Burton Road, Brixton: "he realised that in South London there was a new territory open to a novelist’s exploitation. From Burton Road he went for long walks through nearby Camberwell, soaking up impressions of the way of life he saw emerging there."[1] This led him to writing In the Year of Jubilee, the story of "the romantic and sexual initiation of a suburban heroine, Nancy Lord." Gissing originally called his novel “Miss Lord of Camberwell”.[1]
The title refers to the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.
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Further reading edit
- Coustillas, Pierre, ed. (1978). London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Hassocks: The Harvester Press.
- Glover, David (2001). "'This Spectacle of a World's Wonder': Commercial Culture and Urban Space in Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee." In: A Garland for Gissing. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 137–152.
- Greenslade, William (2001). "Writing Against Himself: Gissing and the Lure of Modernity in In the Year of Jubilee." In: A Garland for Gissing. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 271–278.
- Harman, Barbara Leah (1992). "Going Public: Female Emancipation in George Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, pp. 347–374.
- Harsh, Constance D. (1994). "Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee and the Epistemology of Resistance," SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, Nineteenth Century, pp. 853–875.
- Selig, Robert L. (1969). "A Sad Heart at the Late-Victorian Culture Market: George Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee," SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Vol. IX, No. 4, Nineteenth Century, pp. 703–720.
External links edit
- In the Year of Jubille, Vol. II, Vol. III, at Internet Archive
- In the Year of Jubilee at Project Gutenberg
In the Year of Jubilee public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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