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London Labour and the London Poor

Af: Henry Mayhew Engelsk Paperback

London Labour and the London Poor

Af: Henry Mayhew Engelsk Paperback
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With an Introduction by Rosemary O''Day.

London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.

In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist''s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three.

No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. ''To pass from one to the other'', writes one authority,'' is to cross sides of the same street''.

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With an Introduction by Rosemary O''Day.

London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.

In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist''s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three.

No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. ''To pass from one to the other'', writes one authority,'' is to cross sides of the same street''.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 688
ISBN-13: 9781840226195
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1840226196
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 5 mar 2008
Længde: 37mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 mar 2008
Forfatter(e): Henry Mayhew
Forfatter(e) Henry Mayhew

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9781840226195

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 688

Udgave

Længde 37mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 5 mar 2008

Oplagsdato 5 mar 2008

Forlag Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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