Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Gissing’s Critical Contexts Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor; 1. Baltherwicks and Busybodies: Gissing on the Culture of Philanthropic Slumming Diana Maltz 2. Her Appearance in Public: Sexual Danger, Urban Space and the Working Woman Emma Liggins 3. ‘Just a morsel to stay your appetite’: Gissing and the Cultural Politics of Food Scott McCracken 4. The Strange Case of Godwin Peak: Double Consciousness in Born in Exile Jenny Bourne Taylor 5. Sex and the City: Gissing, Helmholtz, Freud David Glover 6. The Discontents of Everyday Life: Civilization and Pathology of Masculinity in The Whirlpool Simon J. James 7. Whirlpools of Modernity: European Naturalism and the Urban Phantasmagoria Deborah Parsons 8. ‘To show a man of letters’: Gissing, Cultural Authority and Literary Modernism Martin Ryle 9. New Grub Street’s Self Consciousness Christina Lupton and Tilman Reitz 10. The Voice of the Unclassed: Gissing and Twentieth-Century English Fiction Patrick Parrinder; Index