Critical Essays On Arthur Morrison And The East End

Author : Diana Maltz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000594386

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Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End by Diana Maltz Pdf

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.

Author : Eliza Cubitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780429582080

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Arthur Morrison and the East End by Eliza Cubitt Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur Morrison
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 2566 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786560322

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Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Morrison (Illustrated) by Arthur Morrison Pdf

Arthur Morrison wrote pioneering realistic narratives about working-class life in London's East End. He is also celebrated for his exciting mystery stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, who served as a natural successor to Sherlock Holmes. This comprehensive eBook presents Morrison’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time and detailed introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Morrison’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the novels and story collections, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes Morrison’s rare tales – available in no other collection * Includes Morrison’s essay HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Martin Hewitt Books MARTIN HEWITT, INVESTIGATOR CHRONICLES OF MARTIN HEWITT ADVENTURES OF MARTIN HEWITT THE RED TRIANGLE The Novels A CHILD OF THE JAGO TO LONDON TOWN CUNNING MURRELL THE HOLE IN THE WALL The Short Story Collections THE SHADOWS AROUND US TALES OF MEAN STREETS ZIG-ZAGS AT THE ZOO THE DORRINGTON DEED BOX THE GREEN EYE OF GOONA DIVERS VANITIES GREEN GINGER The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Author : Dustin Friedman,Kristin Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009081634

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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s by Dustin Friedman,Kristin Mahoney Pdf

The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-century. In recent decades, the fin de siècle has come to be viewed as one of the most dynamic decades of the Victorian era. Viewed by writers and artists of the period as a moment of opportunity, transition, and urgency, the 1890s are pivotal for understanding the parameters of the field of Victorian studies itself. This volume makes a case for why the decade continues to be an area of perennial fascination, focusing on transnational connections, gender and sexuality, ecological concerns, technological innovations, and other current critical trends. This collection both calls attention to the diverse range of literature and art being produced during this period and foregrounds the relevance of the Victorian era's final years to issues and crises that face us today.

Author : Arthur Morrison
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 2067 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479423941

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The Arthur Morrison Mystery MEGAPACK® by Arthur Morrison Pdf

Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) 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, one series of which featured the adventures of detective Martin Hewitt. Morrison’s best known work of fiction is probably his novel "A Child of the Jago" (1896, included here), but fans of detective fiction will recognize him from his mystery short stories, some of which were featured in the Rivals of Sherlock Holmes series. Included are: THE NARRATIVE OF MR. JAMES RIGBY THE CASE OF JANISSARY THE CASE OF THE "MIRROR OF PORTUGAL" THE AFFAIR OF THE "AVALANCHE BICYCLE AND TYRE CO., LIMITED" THE CASE OF MR. LOFTUS DEACON OLD CATER'S MONEY THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIES THE LOSS OF SAMMY CROCKETT THE CASE OF MR. FOGGATT THE CASE OF THE DIXON TORPEDO THE QUINTON JEWEL AFFAIR THE STANWAY CAMEO MYSTERY THE AFFAIR OF THE TORTOISE THE IVY COTTAGE MYSTERY THE NICOBAR BULLION CASE THE HOLFORD WILL CASE THE CASE OF THE MISSING HAND THE CASE OF LAKER, ABSCONDED THE CASE OF THE LOST FOREIGNER THE AFFAIR OF MRS. SETON'S CHILD THE CASE OF MR. GELDARD'S ELOPEMENT THE CASE OF THE DEAD SKIPPER THE CASE OF THE "FLITTERBAT LANCERS" THE CASE OF THE LATE MR. REWSE THE CASE OF THE WARD LANE TABERNACLE THE AFFAIR OF SAMUEL'S DIAMONDS THE CASE OF MR. JACOB MASON THE CASE OF THE LEVER KEY THE CASE OF THE BURNT BARN THE CASE OF THE ADMIRALTY CODE THE ADVENTURE OF CHANNEL MARSH LIZERUNT WITHOUT VISIBLE MEANS TO BOW BRIDGE THAT BRUTE SIMMONS BEHIND THE SHADE THREE ROUNDS IN BUSINESS THE RED COW GROUP ON THE STAIRS SQUIRE NAPPER "A POOR STICK" A CONVERSION "ALL THAT MESSUAGE" THE THING IN THE UPPER ROOM MR. MACFADYEN, MORTAL A PASSED MASTER AS FAR AS THEY HAD GOT AUNT SARAH'S BROOCHZ A GAME OF BILLIARDS A VISION OF TOYOKUNI CHANCE OF THE GAME SPOTTO'S RECLAMATION A "DEAD 'UN" THE DISORDER OF THE BATH HIS TALE OF BRICKS TEACHER AND TAUGHT A BLOT ON ST. BASIL ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE INGRATES AT BAGSHAW'S RHYMER THE SECOND CHARLWOOD WITH A NUMBER A POOR BARGAIN STATEMENT OF EDWARD CHALONER LOST TOMMY JEPPS THE LEGEND OF LAPWATER HALL THE BLACK BADGER THE TORN HEART THE FIRST MAGNUM MR. NORIE'S MAGNUM MR. CLIFTON'S MAGNUM THE STEWARD'S MAGNUM—AND ANOTHER MR. POOLEY'S MAGNUM A BOX OF ODDMENTS MR. SMITH'S MAGNUMS THE GREEN EYE A SKINFUL OF TROUBLE THE ABSENT THREE THE STOLEN BLENKINSOP CAP'EN JOLLYFAX'S GUN SNORKEY TIMMS, HIS MARKS THE COPPER CHARM DOBBS'S PARROT THE SELLER OF HATE THE RODD STREET REVOLUTION THE CHAMBER OF LIGHT: A FANTASY MR. BOSTOCK'S BACK-SLIDING THE HOUSE OF HADDOCK A LUCIFO MATCH ARTS AND CRAFTS WICKS'S WATERLOO THE DRINKWATER ROMANCE MR. WALKER'S AEROPLANE LIES UNREGISTERED FIDDLE O' DREAMS A PROFESSIONAL EPISODE BYLESTONES THE FOUR-WANT WAY THE THING IN THE UPPER ROOM MYXOMYCETES SPORTS OF MUGBY FRENZIED FINANCE BILLY BLENKIN'S RADIUM INFANTRY AT THE DOUBLE THE EAST A-CALLIN' BUSKERS AT BAY A CHILD OF THE JAGO THE HOLE IN THE WALL If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3464233

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The Critic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119675778

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A Companion to Crime Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley Pdf

A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

Author : Arthur Morrison,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968586557

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Essential Novelists - Arthur Morrison by Arthur Morrison,August Nemo Pdf

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Arthur Morrisonwhich are A Child of the Jago and The Hole in the Wall. 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. Novels selected for this book: - A Child of the Jago - The Hole in the WallThis is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000676512

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The Critic by Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder Pdf

Author : Katie Baker,Naomi Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000859461

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A Space of Their Own by Katie Baker,Naomi Walker Pdf

This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’ into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued ‘a space of their own’ in which to work. The period on which this collection focuses straddles two main areas of study, nineteenth century writing and early twentieth century/modernist writing, so it enables discussion of how ideas of space progressed alongside changes in styles of writing. It looks to the many ways women writers explored concepts of space and place and how they expressed these through their writings, for example how they interpreted both urban and rural landscapes and how they presented domestic spaces. A Space of Their Own will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and modernist works as it covers a period of immense change for women’s rights in society. It is also not limited to just one type or definition of ‘space’. Therefore, it may also be of interest to academics outside of literature – for example, in gender studies, cultural geography, place writing and digital humanities.

Author : Joanne Bridget Simpson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000850253

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Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction by Joanne Bridget Simpson Pdf

The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and examines the inherent role of the law in the construction of the narrative in the literature of the nineteenth century. From the approach to the operation of jurisprudence and legal application, to the prosecution of the poor, the criminological approach to moral panics and the use of the affirmative defence to mitigate women within society, this book explores the ways in which the authors of the period used the novel form as a way of challenging and critiquing the legal operating model of the world in which their characters found themselves; examining the way in which the authors of the period used the novel as a means of critiquing the nature of the role of the law within society, its impact upon the general public, and the reciprocity which exists between legal ideals and the society which manifests those ideals through thought and action. This is a useful text for students of nineteenth-century literature or the law.

Author : Anna Despotopoulou,Vassiliki Kolocotroni,Efterpi Mitsi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000834307

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Hotel Modernisms by Anna Despotopoulou,Vassiliki Kolocotroni,Efterpi Mitsi Pdf

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural mobility, transitory and precarious modes of living, and experiences of personal and political transformation, the hotel space in modernist writing complicates binaries such as public and private, risk and rootedness, and convention and experimentation. It is also a prime location for modernist production and the cross-fertilization of heterogeneous, inter- and trans- literary, cultural, national, and affective modes. The study of the hotel in the work of authors such as E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Kay Boyle, and Joseph Roth reveals the ways in which the hotel nuances the notions of mobilities, networks, and communities in terms of gender, nation, and class. Whereas Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Anaïs Nin, and Denton Welch negotiate affective and bodily states which arise from the alienation experienced at liminal hotel spaces and which lead to new poetics of space, Vicki Baum, Georg Lukács, James Joyce, and Elizabeth Bishop explore the socio-political and cultural conflicts which are manifested in and by the hotel. This volume invites us to think of “hotel modernisms” as situated in or enabled by this dynamic space. Including chapters which traverse the boundaries of nation and class, it regards the hotel as the transcultural space of modernity par excellence.

Author : Paul Newland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401206242

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The Cultural Construction of London’s East End by Paul Newland Pdf

Paul Newland’s illuminating study explores the ways in which London’s East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts – films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour.The Cultural Construction of London’s East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Television’s EastEnders, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights, Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Can’t Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider, and in the work of Iain Sinclair.

Author : Nicholas Freeman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191527319

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Conceiving the City by Nicholas Freeman Pdf

Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art. Breaking away from the language and style of Dickens and the static panorama paintings of William Powell Frith, major figures such as Henry James and J. M. Whistler, and, crucially, less-celebrated authors such as Arthur Machen, Edwin Pugh, and George Egerton bent realism into exciting new shapes. In the naturalism of George Gissing and Arthur Morrison, the fragmentary impressions of Ford Madox Ford, and the brooding mystery of Alvin Langdon Coburn's photogravures, London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art. Although many of these insights would be dismissed or at least downplayed by subsequent generations, the ideas evolved during the period from 1870 to 1914 anticipate not only the work of high modernists such as Eliot and Woolf, but also that of later urban theorists such as Foucault and de Certeau, and the novels and travelogues of contemporary London writers Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair. Nicholas Freeman recovers a sense of late-Victorian London as a subject for dynamic theoretical and aesthetic experiments, and shows, in stimulating analyses of Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Arthur Symons, and others how much of our understanding of urban space we owe to eminent (and not so eminent) Victorian figures. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book restores a much-needed historical perspective to our engagement with the metropolis.

Author : Isabelle Brasme
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000828016

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Writers at War by Isabelle Brasme Pdf

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms. While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors’ literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war. This book is intended for academics, researchers, PhD candidates, postgraduates and anyone interested in war literature.