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A Child of the Jago
Arthur Morrison
Edited by Peter Miles
256 pages
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map of the Jago
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196x129mm
978-0-19-960551-4
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Paperback
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09 February 2012
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- The only critical edition of Morrison's searing tale of life in the slums of London's East End, the story of a boy who yearns to escape poverty and violence with the odds stacked against him.
- Peter Miles's comprehensive edition offers unrivalled contextual material about the book, its author, the social debates to which it contributed, and its reception.
- The introduction discusses the real slums of London, Morrison's life and work, the social politics of the book and its importance as a novel of social realism.
- Invaluable notes illuminate details of life in the East End, popular culture and recreation, and the real-life parallels of Morrison's characters and situations.
- Glossary of slang terms.
- Appendix on the reception of Morrison's novel among critics and social commentators and Morrison's responses to them.
'The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.'
In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day, deaths are commonplace, and thieving the only way to survive. At first Dicky dreams of becoming a High Mobsman - one of the aristocrats of Jago crime - but the efforts of Father Sturt to improve conditions offer him a different path. Dicky's journey takes him through a savage but colourful community of pickpockets and cosh-carriers, where the police only
enter in threes, and where murder erupts with an unusual horror and intimacy.
Morrison's portrayal of the Victorian underclass and its underworld drew attention to the bleak prospects for children living in such surroundings, and it is a classic of slum-fiction. In this edition Peter Miles provides a rich contextual background to the creation of the novel, and the social debates to which it contributed.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Readers interested in urban literature, working-class fiction, social realism, Victorian literature, the Victorian underclass, writing about London; students of Victorian literature, British social history, sociology, social policy, Victorian studies, urban studies.
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Arthur Morrison Edited by Peter Miles, Emeritus Fellow of the English Association, formerly Head of English, University of Wales, Lampeter.Peter Miles is the editor of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for OWC.
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"Our horrified fascination remains unabated" - The Independent
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