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Arthur Morrison and the East End
- The Legacy of Slum Fictions
Engelsk
Bogcover for Arthur Morrison and the East End af Eliza Cubitt, 9780367661311
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
202
ISBN-13:
9780367661311
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367661314
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2020
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 22,7 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):

Arthur Morrison and the East End

- The Legacy of Slum Fictions
Engelsk
Paperback 2020
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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.



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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
202
ISBN-13:
9780367661311
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367661314
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2020
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 22,7 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
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