London Labour and the London Poor
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.04.2012
Abbildungen
w. 24 ill and a map
Herausgeber
Robert Douglas-FairhurstVerlag
Oxford University PressSeitenzahl
528
Maße (L/B/H)
20.4/13.1/3 cm
Gewicht
357 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-19-969757-1
London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with London's street traders, entertainers, thieves and beggars which revealed that the 'two nations' of rich and poor in Victorian Britain were much closer than many people thought. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously
hidden world to view. The first-hand accounts of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavenger and chimney-sweep, are intimate and detailed and provide an unprecedented insight into their day-to-day struggle for survival. Combined with Mayhew's obsessive data gathering, these stories have an immediacy that owes
much to his sympathetic understanding and highly effective literary style.
This new selection offers a cross-section of the original volumes and their evocative illustrations, and includes an illuminating introduction to Henry Mayhew and the genesis and influence of his work.
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