Author: Eliza Cubitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429582080
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed as epitomes of slum fictions of the 1890s as well as prime examples of nineteenth-century realism, but their complex contemporary reception reveals the intricate paradoxes involved in representing the turn-of-the-century city. Arthur Morrison and the East End examines how an understanding of the East End in the Victorian cultural imagination operates in Morrison’s own writing. Engaging with the contemporary vogue for slum fiction, Morrison redressed accounts written by outsiders, positioning himself as uniquely knowledgeable about a place considered unknowable. His work provides a vigorous challenge to the fictionalised East End created by his predecessors, whilst also paying homage to Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Walter Besant and Guy de Maupassant. Examining the London sites which Morrison lived in and wrote about, this book is an excursion not into the Victorian East End, but into the fictions constructed around it.
Arthur Morrison and the East End
Author: Eliza Cubitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429582080
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed as epitomes of slum fictions of the 1890s as well as prime examples of nineteenth-century realism, but their complex contemporary reception reveals the intricate paradoxes involved in representing the turn-of-the-century city. Arthur Morrison and the East End examines how an understanding of the East End in the Victorian cultural imagination operates in Morrison’s own writing. Engaging with the contemporary vogue for slum fiction, Morrison redressed accounts written by outsiders, positioning himself as uniquely knowledgeable about a place considered unknowable. His work provides a vigorous challenge to the fictionalised East End created by his predecessors, whilst also paying homage to Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Walter Besant and Guy de Maupassant. Examining the London sites which Morrison lived in and wrote about, this book is an excursion not into the Victorian East End, but into the fictions constructed around it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429582080
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed as epitomes of slum fictions of the 1890s as well as prime examples of nineteenth-century realism, but their complex contemporary reception reveals the intricate paradoxes involved in representing the turn-of-the-century city. Arthur Morrison and the East End examines how an understanding of the East End in the Victorian cultural imagination operates in Morrison’s own writing. Engaging with the contemporary vogue for slum fiction, Morrison redressed accounts written by outsiders, positioning himself as uniquely knowledgeable about a place considered unknowable. His work provides a vigorous challenge to the fictionalised East End created by his predecessors, whilst also paying homage to Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Walter Besant and Guy de Maupassant. Examining the London sites which Morrison lived in and wrote about, this book is an excursion not into the Victorian East End, but into the fictions constructed around it.
Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End
Author: Diana Maltz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000594386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based, he incited 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, disability, housing, professionalism, and slum photography. Morrison’s works are also reexamined in the light of writings by Sir Walter Besant, Clementina Black, Charles Booth, Charles Dickens, George Gissing, and Margaret Harkness. This volume features an introduction and 11 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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000594386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based, he incited 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, disability, housing, professionalism, and slum photography. Morrison’s works are also reexamined in the light of writings by Sir Walter Besant, Clementina Black, Charles Booth, Charles Dickens, George Gissing, and Margaret Harkness. This volume features an introduction and 11 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.
Tales of Mean Streets
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison
Reality and Representation
Author: Katherine C. Bardel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East End (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East End (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A Child of the Jago Illustrated
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.A bestseller in its time, [1] it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, [2] a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel on Christmas Day 1896, felt that it was "poor stuf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.A bestseller in its time, [1] it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, [2] a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel on Christmas Day 1896, felt that it was "poor stuf
Arthur Morrison
Author: Stan Newens
Publisher: Damaris Publishing
ISBN: 9781905269105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: Damaris Publishing
ISBN: 9781905269105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Child of the Jago
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199605513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day, deaths are commonplace, and thieving the only way to survive." -- Back cover.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199605513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day, deaths are commonplace, and thieving the only way to survive." -- Back cover.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411679008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Classic detective fiction by one of the earliest rivals of Sherlock Holmes. This book contains seven exciting stories featuring Martin Hewitt.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411679008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Classic detective fiction by one of the earliest rivals of Sherlock Holmes. This book contains seven exciting stories featuring Martin Hewitt.
7 best short stories by Arthur Morrison
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968587669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Arthur Morrison was noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in London's East End at the end of the Victorian era. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories: - That Brute Simmos - A Poor Stick - Behind the Shade - To Bow Bridges - A Conversation - All That Messuage - Three Hounds
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968587669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Arthur Morrison was noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in London's East End at the end of the Victorian era. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories: - That Brute Simmos - A Poor Stick - Behind the Shade - To Bow Bridges - A Conversation - All That Messuage - Three Hounds
The Thing in the Upper Room
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633550303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This is one of those stories
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633550303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This is one of those stories