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Loading... The Essential Mayhew. Representing and Communicating the Poorby Bertrand Taithe
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Mayhew's exploration of the Victorian underclass has long been regarded as a classic of low-life reportage - a canny mixture of oral history and social statistics, with deliberate stress on the sensational. This book offers the re-discovered text of Henry Mayhew's correspondence with the readers of London Labour and the London Poor, letters which promoted the sales of the weekly instalments by becoming a vital link between Mayhew and his mostly working class readership. The letters not only define Mayhew's sociology in the making, they can be used as the undertext of London Labour and the London poor. Bertrand Taithe's analytic introduction reinforces Mayhew's claims to be a pioneer and serious theorist, and places this early militant in his own social context - a bourgeois renegade who still revealed the power of middle-class meanings. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.562Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Class Lower, alienated, excluded classes Working classLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |