A Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s (An Academy Victorian Classic, reprint of the 1897 Third edition)
"Diana Maltz's new Broadview edition of Arthur Morrison's classic A Child of the Jago is superb in every respect. With a fine, wide-ranging introduction, helpful notes, and useful appendices identifying the many controversies in which Morrison's work enveloped him, this Jago is destined to become the standard text for readers of this important novel. Broadview has done it again." (Dan Bivona, Arizona State University)"This edition is long overdue. The topics for the introduction and appendices are well chosen; in particular, I appreciate the attention to the controversies surrounding and aroused by the text, including the debate on environmentalism versus degradation. Given that even the bulk of the Victorian reading public were outsiders to the language and culture of the Old Nichol, on which the Jago was based, even established Victorianists will benefit from the edition's in-depth explanatory notes. Diana Maltz's edition will help to make the Jago immediately present to a new generation of readers." (Monica Flegel, Lakehead University)--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.