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Individualism, Decadence and GlobalizationThe Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy

Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: The Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of... [John Davidson was a great admirer of the novelist George Gissing, who has come down to us as the novelist of réssentiment.2 Davidson’s resentful clerk in “Thirty Bob A Week” (1894) could have been a character in Gissing. Beginning with an altruistic mission, to cure disease, Davidson’s Vivisector soon became the opposite of the philanthropist: the deranged scientist in pursuit of knowledge at any price. In TheWhirlpool, partly inspired by Davidson’s life — the painful waste of urban poverty whirling in unutterable agony but sweetened in sexual love — Gissing is more closely allied to the Decadence than we often think, his Netherworld of London slums as infernal as Davidson’s tortured cosmos.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Individualism, Decadence and GlobalizationThe Unclassed and the Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
ISBN
978-1-349-31995-4
Pages
116 –135
DOI
10.1057/9780230277540_5
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Abstract

[John Davidson was a great admirer of the novelist George Gissing, who has come down to us as the novelist of réssentiment.2 Davidson’s resentful clerk in “Thirty Bob A Week” (1894) could have been a character in Gissing. Beginning with an altruistic mission, to cure disease, Davidson’s Vivisector soon became the opposite of the philanthropist: the deranged scientist in pursuit of knowledge at any price. In TheWhirlpool, partly inspired by Davidson’s life — the painful waste of urban poverty whirling in unutterable agony but sweetened in sexual love — Gissing is more closely allied to the Decadence than we often think, his Netherworld of London slums as infernal as Davidson’s tortured cosmos.]

Published: Nov 30, 2015

Keywords: Great Admirer; Marginal People; Gypsy Family; Beautiful Object; Sexual Love

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