London Labour and the London Poor

Author:   Henry Mayhew ,  Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   528
Publication Date:   12 April 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Henry Mayhew ,  Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.50cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780199697571


ISBN 10:   0199697574
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   12 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Review from previous edition Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...this selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world. John Bowen, TLS 17/12/2010 Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wishes to understand how our nineteenth century truly was. Simon Heffer, Telegraph 14/01/2011 superb new edition Ian Thomson, Evening Standard 02/12/2010 superb introduction Michael Dirda, Washington Post 26/01/2011 some of the best descriptive writing in the English language Roy Hattersley, New Statesman 18/10/2010


`Review from previous edition Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...this selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world.' John Bowen, TLS 17/12/2010 `Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wishes to understand how our nineteenth century truly was.' Simon Heffer, Telegraph 14/01/2011 `superb new edition' Ian Thomson, Evening Standard 02/12/2010 `superb introduction' Michael Dirda, Washington Post 26/01/2011 `some of the best descriptive writing in the English language' Roy Hattersley, New Statesman 18/10/2010


`Review from previous edition Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...this selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world.' John Bowen, TLS 17/12/2010 `Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wishes to understand how our nineteenth century truly was.' Simon Heffer, Telegraph 14/01/2011 `superb new edition' Ian Thomson, Evening Standard 02/12/2010 `superb introduction' Michael Dirda, Washington Post 26/01/2011 `some of the best descriptive writing in the English language' Roy Hattersley, New Statesman 18/10/2010


some of the best descriptive writing in the English language * Roy Hattersley, New Statesman 18/10/2010 * superb introduction * Michael Dirda, Washington Post 26/01/2011 * superb new edition * Ian Thomson, Evening Standard 02/12/2010 * Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wishes to understand how our nineteenth century truly was. * Simon Heffer, Telegraph 14/01/2011 * Review from previous edition Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...this selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world. * John Bowen, TLS 17/12/2010 *


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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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