The Essential Mayhew: Representing and Communicating the Poor - Hardcover

Taithe, Bertrand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854890468 ISBN 13: 9781854890467

Publisher: Rivers Oram Press, 1996

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rivers Oram Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854890468
• ISBN 13: 9781854890467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304