Critical essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End
"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. W...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York ; London :
Routledge
[2022]
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| Colección: | Among the Victorians and Modernists
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009816740306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
