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London Labour and the London Poor

Name: London Labour and the London Poor
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Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781605207360

Henry Mayhew

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546 sidor
2013

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper Morning Chronicle throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it."

Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th.

Volume II explores the lives of:

sellers of secondhand merchandise
sellers of live animals
sellers of natural curiosities
"street-Jews"
chimney sweepers
and more.

English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine Punch.

Författare: Henry Mayhew
Format: Inbunden
ISBN: 9781605207360
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 546
Utgivningsdatum: 2013-01-01
Förlag: Cosimo Classics