Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

Diana Maltz is Professor of English at Southern Oregon University. She earned her PhD.in English Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People (2006) and the editor of Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago (2013) and W. Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth ( 2022). She has received fellowships from the Ahmanson-Getty Foundation, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the NEH Summer Seminar Program, and the Fulbright Commission. She is Past President of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States.

Introduction

DIANA MALTZ

Part One: Vulnerable Bodies

1. Classed Childhood in Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago and Victorian Slum Fiction

S. BROOKE CAMERON

2. Visual Disability and Criminality in Morrison’s The Hole in the Wall

VANESSA WARNE

3. Photographic Realism and the ‘Ragged Boy’ in Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago (1896), To London Town (1899), and The Hole in the Wall (1902)

ELIZA CUBITT

Part Two: Social Investigation

4. Erasing Women’s Labor: Neglecting Female Reformers in the Slum Fiction of Besant, Harkness, and Morrison

MATTHEW DUNLEAVY

5. "Not What It Was Made Out": Hygiene, Health, and Moral Welfare in the Old Nichol, 1880–1900

FLORE JANSSEN

6. "Enterprising Realists": Tracing the Influence of Charles Booth’s Life and Labour on A Child of the Jago and Other Slum Fictions

SARAH WISE

Part Three: Crime and Money

7. Afterlives of A Child of the Jago

NADIA VALMAN

8. Morrison’s Camorra: Organized Crime in Transcultural Context

DIANA MALTZ

9. Investment and Housing in Gissing’s The Unclassed and Morrison’s "All That Messuage"

TOM UE

Part Four: Resituating Morrison

10. Disconnecting and Reconnecting Morrison: Professional and Specialist Authorship

SIMON JOYCE

11. Essex and the Metropolitan Periphery in To London Town, Cunning Murrell, and "A Wizard of Yesterday"

JASON FINCH