London Labour and the London Poor
A new selection from Henry Mayhew's pioneering work on the lives of the London poor in Victorian England, with original illustrations, illuminating introduction and additional material. It's a cross-section from his four original volumes, and the introduction gives fascinating insight into the book's influence on his contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley. November 2012 marks the bicentenary of Mayhew's birth.
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Weitere Autoren: Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969757-1
- EAN: 9780199697571
- Produktnummer: 12270466
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Masse: H13.0 cm x B19.6 cm x D2.4 cm 362 g
- Abbildungen: 24 black and white illustrations, and a map
- Gewicht: 362
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Henry Mayhew was a journalist, novelist, dramatist, and social investigator, born in London in 1812. He was one of the founding editors of Punch and went on to produce some of the most important journalism of the nineteenth century. His series of articles on 'Labour and the Poor' attracted wide notice and eventually grew into a massive four-volume work. He died in 1887.Robert Douglas-Fairhurst writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and Times Literary Supplement and has previously edited Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books and Great Expectations for OWC. He is the author of Victorian Afterlives: the Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (OUP, 2002).
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