Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Morrison’s Early Life and Writings
	A Child of the Jago
	The Reception of Jago and Morrison’s Artistic Choices
	Japanese Art
	Detective Fiction
	Returning to the East End Imaginary
	Morrison’s Moves and the Importance of Essex
	Last Years
	The Advent of Morrison Studies
	The Focus of This Essay Collection
	The Structure of the Essay Collection
	Notes
Part I Vulnerable Bodies
	1 Classed Childhood in Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago and Victorian Slum Fiction
		Victorian Narratives of Classed Childhood
		The Problem of Childhood in the Slums
		Conclusion
		Notes
	2 Visual Disability and Criminality in Morrison’s The Hole in the Wall
		“Cunning With a Life’s Blindness”: Portraits of Blindness
		Common Cause: Lime, Injury, and Industry
		Visual Acuity and Moral Worth
		Notes
	3 Photographic Realism and the “Ragged Boy” in Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago (1896), To London Town (1899), …
		Introduction
		The Form of the Ragged Boy
		Five Feet Two, Solemnity Great: Dicky Perrott
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part II Social Investigation
	4 Erasing Women’s Labor: Neglecting Female Reformers in the Slum Fiction of Besant, Harkness, and Morrison
		Introduction
		“Like a Tamer Among Beasts”: The Iron Discipline of Father Sturt in A Child of the Jago
		“I Do Not Expect to Do Better Than Men […] It Will Be Enough If I Do as Well”: Mythologizing Male Genius in All Sorts and ...
		Protecting the Slum Sister in In Darkest London
		Conclusion
		Notes
	5 “Not What It Was Made Out”: Hygiene, Health, and Moral Welfare in the Old Nichol, 1880–1900
		“Metropolitan Degradation”: Linking Poverty With Dirt
		Keeping Clean in Adversity
		Conclusion: Reputations
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
	6 “Enterprising Realists”: Tracing the Influence of Charles Booth’s Life and Labour On A Child of the Jago and Other Slum Fictions
		“That Gift of the Imagination Which Is Called ‘Realistic’.”
		Classes C to E: “Respectable Poverty” in Booth and Morrison
		Two Important Novelists, Gissing and Morrison, in Jay’s Orbit
		The Knock at the Door: Compiling the Curate’s Notebook
		Riven With (The Same) Contradictions: Booth, Jay, and Morrison
		Morrison’s First-Hand Experience and Booth’s Best Guesses
		Checking Up On Morrison’s “Facts”
		“Chronicles of the Sordid”: Popular Fiction Takes a Sociological Turn—Harkness, Rook, and Whiteing
		Booth’s Eight London Class Categories
		Notes
Part III Crime and Money
	7 Afterlives of A Child of the Jago
		A Child of the Nichol: Arthur Harding’s “My Apprenticeship to Crime”
		The Shadow of the Jago: Alexander Baron’s King Dido
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
	8 Morrison’s Camorra: Organized Crime in Transcultural Context
		Defining Organized Crime
		Morrison and the Hooligan After 1900
		Camorra Culture
		The Camorra in the English-Language Periodical Press
			Stories of Naples and the Camorra
		Proximity and Distance Among Morrison’s Criminals
		The Movement to Corporate Crime
		Conclusion: Dorrington’s Perfection of Systems: Moving Things and Using People
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
	9 Investment and Housing in Gissing’s The Unclassed and Morrison’s “All That Messuage”
		Abraham Gets His Due in The Unclassed
		The Capitalist as Victim in “All That Messuage”
		Postscript
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
Part IV Resituating Morrison
	10 Disconnecting and Reconnecting Morrison: Professional and Specialist Authorship
		Life and Work: Apprentice Years at the People’s Palace
		Market Writing: Slums, Zoos, Private Detectives
		Discovering Japan
		Professionalism and the Question of Specialization
		Notes
	11 Essex and the Metropolitan Periphery in To London Town, Cunning Murrell, and “A Wizard of Yesterday”
		The City, the Slums, and the River: Morrison’s Imaginative Places and Existing Views of Him
		Morrison and London’s Outer Rings
		To London Town and the Birth of Greater London
		More Urban Than at First Sight: Cunning Murrell and “A Wizard of Yesterday”
		Conclusion
		Notes
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Index