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Book A Child of the Jago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Morrison
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 1770484353
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book A Child of the Jago written by Arthur Morrison and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Learn to read and write, learn all you can, learn cunning, spare nobody and stop at nothing. … Do your devilmost … for the Jago’s got you!” Dicky Perrott, growing up in the notoriously criminal enclave of the Jago, listens and learns. Compelled by his family’s circumstances to provide for his mother and siblings, he sharpens his skills as a boy thief. Along the way, he navigates the Jago’s topsy-turvy ethics, vacillating between the rival messages of his mentors, a devious local fence and a righteous slum priest. Relentless in its bleakness and violence, A Child of the Jago captures the desperate struggle for survival in 1890s East London. This Broadview Edition provides the literary, socio-historical, and philosophical contexts vital to readers’ understanding and appreciation of the novel. Historical appendices include materials on eugenics, hooliganism, women’s sweated labor, cultural philanthropy, and the debate over the novel’s accuracy.

Book A Child of the Jago Illustrated

Download or read book A Child of the Jago Illustrated written by Arthur Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.A bestseller in its time,it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol,a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel on Christmas Day 1896, felt that it was "poor stuff".

Book The Oecumenical Documents of the Faith

Download or read book The Oecumenical Documents of the Faith written by Thomas Herbert Bindley and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Child of the Jago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Morrison
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2014-05-01
  • ISBN : 0897336534
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Child of the Jago written by Arthur Morrison and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.

Book Manchuria  its people  resources and recent history

Download or read book Manchuria its people resources and recent history written by sir Alexander Hosie and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naturalism

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  • Author : Lilian R. Furst
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-06
  • ISBN : 1351630776
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book Naturalism written by Lilian R. Furst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, this book examines the literary style of Naturalism. After introducing the reader to the term itself, including its history and its relationship to Realism, it goes on to trace the origins of the Naturalist movement as well as particular groups which adhered to Naturalism and the theories they espoused. It also provides a summary of the key Naturalist literary works and concludes which a brief reflection on the movement as a whole. This book will be of interest to those studying nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature.

Book Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

Download or read book Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End written by Diana Maltz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive among London’s poorest. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based, he incited the era’s most contentious public debate about the purpose of realism and the responsibilities of the novelist. In his self-defense and in his wider body of work, Morrison demonstrated not only his investments as a formal artist, but also his awareness of social questions. As the first critical essay collection on Arthur Morrison and the East End, this book assesses Morrison’s contributions to late-Victorian culture, especially discourses around English working-class life. Chapters evaluate Morrison in the context of Victorian criminality, child welfare, disability, housing, professionalism, and slum photography. Morrison’s works are also reexamined in the light of writings by Sir Walter Besant, Clementina Black, Charles Booth, Charles Dickens, George Gissing, and Margaret Harkness. This volume features an introduction and 11 chapters by preeminent and emerging scholars of the East End. They employ a variety of critical methodologies, drawing on their respective expertise in literature, history, art history, sociology, and geography. Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End throws fresh new light on this innovative novelist of poverty and urban life.

Book Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City

Download or read book Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City written by Hugh McLeod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, this book describes the religion of the East End, the West End, and the suburbs of London, where each section of society – as well as a variety of immigrant groups – has its own quarters, its own institutions, its distinctive codes of behaviour. While the main focus is on ideas, or unconscious assumptions, rather than institutions, two chapters examine the part played by the churches in the life of Bethnal Green, a very poor district, and of Lewisham, a prosperous suburb, and a third provides a picture of the church-going habits of each part of the city. The years 1880-1914 mark one of the most important transitions in English religious history. The latter part of the book examines the causes and consequences of these changes. This book will be of interest to students of history, and particularly those interested in issues of religion and class.

Book The Established and the Outsiders

Download or read book The Established and the Outsiders written by Norbert Elias and published by Collected Works of Norbert Eli. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 p. vii Note on the text p. xi Towards a Theory of Established-Outsider Relations Norbert Elias (1976) p. 1 Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson (1965) Preface to the first edition p. 39 1 Considerations of procedure p. 43 2 Neighbourhood relations in the making p. 54 3 Overall picture of Zone 1 and Zone 2 p. 64 4 The mother-centred families of Zone 2 p. 81 5 Local associations and the 'old families' network' p. 88 6 Overall picture of Zone 3 p. 106 7 Observations on gossip p. 122 8 Young people in Winston Parva p. 137 9 Conclusion p. 172 Appendices Norbert Elias I Sociological aspects of identification p. 196 II A Note on the concepts 'social structure' and 'anomie' p. 199 III On the relationship of 'family' and 'community' p. 203 Further Aspects of Established-Outsider Relations: The Maycomb Model Norbert Elias (1990) p. 207 Textual variants p. 232 Bibliography p. 236 Index p. 245.

Book Oh No  Jonah

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tilda Balsley
  • Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 1512492302
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Oh No Jonah written by Tilda Balsley and published by Kar-Ben Publishing ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With beautiful artwork and rollicking rhyme, the Bible story of Jonah and the Whale is retold in a fun and unique fashion.

Book Ready to Teach  A Christmas Carol  A compendium of subject knowledge  resources and pedagogy

Download or read book Ready to Teach A Christmas Carol A compendium of subject knowledge resources and pedagogy written by Amy Staniforth and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘It’s a tough gig to write a book that is both academic and accessible. And yet Stuart and Amy have pulled this off. It is a brilliant boon to the English teaching community.’ - Mary Myatt Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol brings together the deep subject knowledge, resources and classroom strategies needed to teach Dickens’s most famous Christmas story, as well as the pedagogical theory behind why these ideas work, helping teachers to deliver a knowledge-rich curriculum with impact. With fresh approaches building on the success of Ready to Teach: Macbeth, each chapter contains lesson-by-lesson essays and commentaries that enhance subject knowledge on key areas of the text alongside fully resourced lessons reflecting current and dynamic best practice. The book also offers an introduction to the key pedagogical concepts which underpin the lessons and why they are proven to help students develop powerful knowledge and key skills. Whether you are new to teaching or looking for different ways into the text, Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol is the ideal companion to the study of this 19th century classic. With a foreword by Mary Myatt.

Book Neo Victorian Families

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Gutleben
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9401207240
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Neo Victorian Families written by Christian Gutleben and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary.

Book The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles

Download or read book The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles written by L. Dryden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late 19th century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late 19th century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the 19th century. The subsequent discussion of the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells offers new perspectives from which to assess the impact of contemporary perceptions of London as a Gothicized space on the works of these novelists.

Book Home and Identity in Nineteenth Century Literary London

Download or read book Home and Identity in Nineteenth Century Literary London written by Robertson Lisa C. Robertson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and creative space for thinking through the relationship between home and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.

Book The Story of God s Love for You

Download or read book The Story of God s Love for You written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s an adventure story about a young Hero who comes from a far country to win back his lost treasure. It’s a love story about a brave Prince who leaves his palace, his throne—everything—to rescue the one he loves. The best thing about this Story is—it’s true! And at the center of the Story, there is a baby. The Child upon whom everything would depend. All the stars, mountains, oceans, and galaxies were nothing compared to how much God loved his children. He would move heaven and earth to be near them. Always. Whatever happened, whatever it cost him, he would always love them. And so it was that the wonderful love story began. The Story of God’s Love for You: Is for teenagers and adults who want to read and learn about the story of God’s love for them Includes 44 short chapters that lead you through the beautiful story of the Bible—Genesis to Revelation Masterfully shows how all the individual Bible stories fit together into one cohesive narrative that points to Jesus Makes the big picture of Scripture clear to new believers, and helps seasoned believers fall in love with the Bible all over again Features text from bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones that brings the truths of the Bible into a new light for today’s world The beauty and peace that only God’s love can provide pulses through every page. Just as The Jesus Storybook Bible is an essential book for the library of every child, The Story of God’s Love for You is an essential book for the library of every adolescent and adult.

Book Young Children Learning

Download or read book Young Children Learning written by Tricia David and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `I particularly enjoyed Judith Roden′s chapter "Young Children Are Natural Scientists" especially her thoughts on children′s drawings, which puncture some popular assumptions′ - Times Educational Supplement, Friday Magazine `This expertly argued and fascinating book seeks to redress the balance; it places the child firmly at the centre of the educational process and examines in detail the many and varied factors (such as health and physical development, play, stress, and early intervention) which affect the way in which the young child learns and develops′ - Who Minds `Tricia David, an internationally recognized expert in early years education, has brought together 11 tutors from Canterbury Christ Church University College to "encourage debate and disagreement".... It has... some absorbing and helpful contributions which both bring forward the debate in early years education and also may cause readers to reappraise their own practice, possibly as a result of disagreeing with one or other contributors′ - International Journal of Early Years Education Young Children Learning brings together current thinking on young children′s learning, with ideas about the curriculum for children aged 0 to eight years old. Areas covered in this book include: play; health and physical development; early intervention; stress; children understanding their worlds; bilingualism; children′s spiritual development; national identity; young children as natural scientists; assessing learning; the needs of parents, children and teachers; and childhood in changing societies. Written by experienced practitioners from the centre for International Studies in early childhood, Young Children Learning shows that in the earliest years of childhood, all children should experience the delight which can be part of effective pedagogy - pedagogy which takes account of the child′s individuality and development, in the context of changing socio-cultural constructions of childhood.

Book The Athenaeum

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 966 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: