George Gissing’s The Nether World and Clerkenwell: The Barren Ways and Phantom-Haunted Refuges of the Nether World

Rebecca Hutcheon

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_102-1

George Gissing’s The Nether World and Clerkenwell: The Barren Ways and Phantom-Haunted Refuges of the Nether World

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Abstract

The Nether World (1889) is Gissing’s fifth London novel. It sits alongside New Grub Street (1891), Born in Exile (1892) and The Whirlpool (1897) as one of the few novels whose titles are spatial rather than, as is the case with the other twenty, temporal or character-based. The ‘nether world’ is a metaphor for Clerkenwell. It draws a figurative connection between the self-contained London district and hellish underworld.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
Editors	Jeremy Tambling
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319625928
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_102-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Clerkenwell
London
Dickens
modernity
Naturalism
Slums
Gissing

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George Gissing’s The Nether World and Clerkenwell: The Barren Ways and Phantom-Haunted Refuges of the Nether World

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