A Child of the Jago (1896)

ISBN-13: 9781551119854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 300 str.

Arthur Morrison; Professor Diana Maltz

Opis

Extensive historical documents provide a rich context for Arthur Morrison's harrowing, controversial novel of London slum life.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Arthur Morrison: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

A Child of the Jago

Glossary of Slang and Criminal Terms

Appendix A: The Debate over the Novel’s Veracity

1. From H.D. Traill, “The New Fiction” (1897)
2. From Arthur Osborne Jay, “The New Realism: To the Editor of The Fortnightly Review” (February 1897)
3. From Arthur Morrison, “What Is a Realist?” (March 1897)
4. From Harold Boulton, “A Novel of the Lowest Life” (9 January 1897)
5. From Clementina Black, “A Septet of Stories” (February 1897)

Appendix B: Deciphering the Slum

1. From Lady Jeune, “The Homes of the Poor” (1894)
2. From Charles Booth, Labour and Life of the People (1889)

Appendix C: Class and Heredity: Slum Degeneration and Atavism

1. From Helen Dendy, “The Children of Working London” (1895)
2. From “To Check the Survival of the Unfit: A New Scheme by the Rev. Osborne Jay, a Militant Bethnal Green Parson, for Sending the Submerged to a Penal Settlement” (12 March 1896)
3. From Mary Higgs, “Mankind in the Making” (June 1906)

Appendix D: On Eugenic Discourse in A Child of the Jago

1. From H.G. Wells, “A Slum Novel” (28 November 1896)
2. From “The Children of the Jago: Slum Life at Close Quarters: A Talk with Mr. Arthur Morrison” (12 December 1896)

Appendix E: Restless Energies

1. From Reginald A. Bray, “The Children of the Town” (1901)
2. From C.F.G. Masterman, “Of the Hooligan” (1902)
3. From Arthur Osborne Jay, Life in Darkest London (1891)

Appendix F: Women and Match-Box Making at Home

1. From Clementina Black, “Match-Box Making at Home” (May 1892)
2. From Raphael Samuel, ed., East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding (1981)
3. Match-Box Making at Home (c. 1900)

Appendix G: A Nichol Boyhood

1. From Raphael Samuel, ed., East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding (1981)

Appendix H: Middle-Class Views on Working-Class Economic Practices

1. From Octavia Hill, “A Few Words to Volunteer Visitors among the Poor” (1877)
2. From Helen Dendy Bosanquet, “The Burden of Small Debts” (1896)
3. From Maude Pember Reeves, Round about a Pound a Week (1913)

Appendix I: Cultural Philanthropy

1. From Samuel A. Barnett, “The Universities and the Poor” (February 1884)
2. From Walter Besant, All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882)
3. From Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1903)

Appendix J: Maps of the Area

1. Boundary Street Scheme, Plan No. 26: Map of the Nichol
2. Boundary Street Scheme, Plan No. 27: Plan for the Boundary Street Estate

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