London Labour and the London Poor (2) - Couverture rigide

Mayhew, Henry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1605207365 ISBN 13 : 9781605207360

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2013

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1605207365
• ISBN 13: 9781605207360
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 546
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• Personne responsable: non disponible