Critical essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End / Diana Maltz, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maltz, Diana, 1965- editor.

Series:

Among the Victorians and Modernists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945.

Morrison, Arthur.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

East End (London, England)--In literature.

East End (London, England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive among London's poorest. A reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based. What followed was the era's most contentious public debate about the purpose of realism and the responsibilities of the novelist. In his self-defense and in his wider body of work, Morrison demonstrated not only his investments as a formal artist, but also his awareness of social questions. As the first critical essay collection on Arthur Morrison and the East End, this book assesses Morrison's contributions to late-Victorian culture, especially discourses around English working-class life. Chapters evaluate Morrison in the context of Victorian criminality, child welfare, finance, temporality, professionalism, and slum photography. Morrison's works are also reexamined in the light of writings by Charles Booth, Sir Walter Besant, Clementina Black, Charles Dickens, and Margaret Harkness. This volume features an introduction and eleven chapters by preeminent and emerging scholars of the East End. They employ a variety of critical methodologies, drawing on their respective expertise in literature, history, art history, sociology, and geography. Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End throws fresh new light on this innovative novelist of poverty and urban life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Classed childhood in Arthur Morrison's A child of the Jago and Victorian slum fiction / S. Brooke Cameron

Visual disability and criminality in Morrison's The hole in the wall / Vanessa Warne

Photographic realism and the 'ragged boy' in Arthur Morrison's A child of the Jago (1896), To London town (1899) and The hole in the wall (1902) / Eliza Cubitt

Erasing women's labor : neglecting female reformers in the slum fiction of Besant, Harkness, and Morrison / Matthew Dunleavy

"Not what it was made out" : hygiene, health, and moral welfare in the Old Nichol, 1880-1900 / Flore Janssen

"Enterprising realists" : tracing the influence of Charles Booth's life and labour on A child of the Jago and other slum fictions / Sarah Wise

Afterlives of A child of the Jago / Nadia Valman

Morrison's Camorra : organized crime in transcultural context / Diana Maltz

Investment and housing in Gissing's The unclassed and Morrison's "All that messuage" / Tom Ue

Disconnecting and re-connecting Morrison : professional and specialist authorship / Simon Joyce

Essex and the metropolitan periphery in To london town, Cunning Murrell, and "A wizard of yesterday" / Jason Finch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Maltz, Diana Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

ISBN:

1-00-301648-0

1-003-01648-0

1-000-59432-7

1-000-59438-6

9781003016489

OCLC:

1310469879