| Titre : | London labour and the London poor |
| Auteurs : | Henry Mayhew ; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | A selected ed. |
| Editeur : | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-19-956608-2 |
| Format : | lii, 472 p. / ill. / 20 cm |
| Note générale : | "This set of interviews and statistical surveys first published as a periodical in 1850-2, and later collected and revised as a set of four volumes in 1861-2" -- P. xv |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | 305.5 |
| Mots-clés: | London labour ; the London poor |
| Résumé : | An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavengers and chimney-sweeps, creating an intimate and detailed portrait that offered unprecedented insight into their day-to-day struggle for survival. Combined with Mayhew's comprehensive data gathering, these stories have an immediacy that owes much to his sympathetic understanding and effective literary style. This new selection offers a cross-section of the original volumes and their evocative illustrations, including among other features an introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst that illuminates Mayhew's life and career, the genesis and development of the book, and its influence on contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley. |
| En ligne : | www.oup.com |
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| LLA019944 | HIS00305 | Livre | Fonds propre-bibliotheque centrale | Histoire | Libre accès Disponible |
| LLA020436 | HIS00306 | Livre | Fonds propre-bibliotheque centrale | Histoire | Libre accès Disponible |
