Title Arthur Morrison and the East End : the legacy of slum fictions / Eliza Cubitt

Published New York : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature. Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Arthur Morrison (1863-1945): An East End Writer; 'The Pure Fame of the Place': The Unreal Victorian Slum; 'Who Knows Arthur Morrison?'; The Problem of Realism: Whose Reality Is It Anyway?; The Legacy of Slum Fictions; 1 Poplar and Ratcliff; Arthur Morrison: 'Another Coming Man'; 'The Scenes of His Wondering Childhood': 1863-1887; On Being Ministered to: 'A Grateful People'; In Darkest Dockland and the Way Out; 2 Whitechapel; Writing the Victorian East End 'Cockney Corners': Sketches of the East EndSketches of Whitechapel, 1872-1889; 3 Mile End; The People's Palace: A 'Possibility, a Certainty and a Fact'; At the Palace, Looking West; From Mile End to The Strand; 'Henley's Regatta'; The Pursuit of Happiness; 4 Limehouse and Stratford; 'A Street' and the Reappraisal of the Slum; Behind the Doors: Dangerous Domesticity; 'Behind the Shade': Gossip and the Silenced; Regions of Strange Order; Becoming 'Them': The Reception of Tales; 5 Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and the 'Jago'; Father Jay and the Nichol Slum in Fiction Creative Reconstruction: Morrison's 'Jago' and the Boundary Street Scheme6 Blackwall and the Docks; Repenting for Realism; Landscapes of the Mind: Epping and Blackwall in To London Town (1899); 'Romance and Squalor': The Hole in the Wall (1902); 7 Return to the East End; 'I Foresaw a Story': The Bathos of the Journalist-Narrator in Divers Vanities (1905); Heads and Tales: London and Elsewhere; 'I Knew the Place, Indeed': Return to the Mean Streets; The Inescapable Jago: Literary Hauntings; 'The Story That I Am to Tell Again': Folk Realism; Conclusion; 'My Own Country': Rewriting the East End The Duty of the Respectable: The Self-Made Man of Letters'Another Way Out': 'The Farthest East'; Afterwords: 'To Correct Your Recollections ... '; 'Well now, Arthur Morrison, How to Put into Words?'; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Eliza Cubitt received her BA and MA from King's College London, and was awarded a PhD from UCL in 2016. She has published work on Morrison, W. Somerset Maugham and Margaret Harkness. She has taught at UCL and at Universitèat Tèubingen, Germany. Since 2014, she has been a committee member of the Literary London Society Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945. SUBJECT Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945 fast Subject Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General. Authors, English Literature SUBJECT East End (London, England) -- In literature Subject England -- London -- East End Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Form Electronic book LC no. 2019004882 ISBN 0429198515 9780429582080 0429582080 9780429583988 0429583982 9780429579868 0429579861 9780429198519

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