Arthur Morrison and the East End: The Legacy of Slum Fictions

by Eliza Cubitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367188236
• ISBN13: 9780367188238
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"