@MASTERSTHESIS{ 2017:631162658,
 	title = {The evolution of the man of letters : George Gissing and the fight for survival in New grub street},
 	year = {2017},
 	url = "http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7157",
 	abstract = "The present dissertation deals with George Gissing’s novel New Grub Street, written in England in 1891. It is a novel about the hardships of the literary industry and how much writers are connected or disconnected with the economical culture they live in. The Victorian age was the age of transition, the age of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer and of the inevitable social changes which came with the innovations brought up by science, social studies and the revolutions that followed. Despite some initial reserve, Victorian people were eager for innovation, even though newness also caused uneasiness. The wish to understand the world that surrounded them, how they got there and what the future reserved formed the basis for modern studies which are relevant until today. The main focus of the text is how Gissing’s fictional characters deal with this world of changes, the competitive market, poverty and social alienation. Each of them reflects partly the author’s own professional and personal choices and opinions in many different shades that come from resignation to utter revolt against the modern pressure for fast, cheap and easy literature. It is puzzling though to notice how pessimistic and even aggressive Gissing is towards his profession inside his imaginative world.",
 	publisher = {Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul},
 	scholl = {Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras},
 	note = {Escola de Humanidades}
}