Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture

In 1897, the literary critic H. D. Traill accused Arthur Morrison’s novel, 'A Child of the Jago', of exaggerating the viciousness of East London’s poor, claiming that Morrison had distilled various criminal behaviors into one totalizing, nightmarish zone of barbarity. This essay looks to M...

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Main Author: Diana Maltz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-09-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/624

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