All Outputs (3)

Iter II (2024)
Book Chapter

We have a family funeral in Telford. “The only good thing about that place,” someone says, “is the road out.” Iter II is a hybrid essay, combing teaching notes and prompts, flash fiction and critical reflection in the form of personal essay and... Read More about Iter II.

Ground level: Questions of how to live and where to live in Alexander Baron's London novels (2019)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, A. (2019). Ground level: Questions of how to live and where to live in Alexander Baron's London novels. In So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron (175-192). Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications

Everything is provisional here. Nothing is grounded..." runs a commentary from Iain Sinclair on twenty-first century Hackney. This chapter discusses the London novels of Alexander Baron in the context of current and historic London housing crises and... Read More about Ground level: Questions of how to live and where to live in Alexander Baron's London novels.

"The young men of the nation": Alexander Baron and urban working class masculinity (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, A. (2017). "The young men of the nation": Alexander Baron and urban working class masculinity. In J. Goodridge, & B. Keegan (Eds.), A History of British Working Class Literature (327-338). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108105392.022

This chapter discusses the young men characters of the East London novelist, Alexander Baron, in his novels of the Second World War, of post-war London and his historical novel, King Dido, set in the East End in the years before World War One. I exam... Read More about "The young men of the nation": Alexander Baron and urban working class masculinity.