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Author:   Eliza Cubitt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780367661311

ISBN 10:   0367661314
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction. I. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945): An East End Writer II. ‘The Pure Fame of the Place’: The Unreal Victorian Slum III. ‘Who Knows Arthur Morrison?’ IV. The Problem of Realism: Whose Reality is it Anyway? V. The Legacy of Slum Fictions Chapter 1. Poplar and Ratcliff I. Arthur Morrison: ‘Another Coming Man.’ II. ‘The Scenes of his Wondering Childhood’: 1863-1887 III. On Being Ministered To: ‘A Grateful People’ IV. In Darkest Dockland and the Way Out Chapter 2. Whitechapel I. Writing the Victorian East End II. ‘Cockney Corners’: Sketches of the East End III. Sketches of Whitechapel, 1872-1889 Chapter 3. Mile End I. The People’s Palace: A ‘possibility, a certainty and a fact.’ II. At the Palace, Looking West. III. From Mile End to The Strand. IV. ‘Henley’s Regatta’ V. The Pursuit of Happiness Chapter 4. Limehouse and Stratford I. ‘A Street’ and the reappraisal of the Slum II. Behind the Doors: Dangerous Domesticity III. ‘Behind the Shade’: Gossip and the Silenced IV. Regions of Strange Order V. Becoming ‘them’: The Reception of Tales Chapter 5. Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and the ‘Jago’ I. Father Jay and the Nichol Slum in fiction II. Creative reconstruction: Morrison’s ‘Jago’ and the Boundary Street Scheme Chapter 6. Blackwall and the Docks I. Repenting for Realism II. Landscapes of the Mind: Epping and Blackwall in To London Town (1899). III. ‘Romance and squalor’: The Hole in the Wall (1902). Chapter 7. Return to the East End I. ‘I foresaw a story’: The Bathos of the Journalist-Narrator in Divers Vanities (1905). II. Heads and Tales: London and Elsewhere III. ‘I knew the place, indeed’: Return to the Mean Streets IV. The inescapable Jago: Literary Hauntings V. ‘The Story that I am to Tell Again’: Folk Realism Conclusion. I. ‘My Own Country’: Rewriting the East End II. The Duty of the Respectable: the Self-Made man of letters III. ‘Another Way Out’: ""The Farthest East"" IV. Afterwords: ‘To correct your recollections…’ V. ‘Well now, Arthur Morrison, how to put into words?’"

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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 Universität Tübingen, Germany. Since 2014, she has been a committee member of the Literary London Society.

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