London Labour and the London Poor- Selections PDF Henry Mayhew

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One can imagine their feeling miserably out of place there, and less than likely to give the detailed accounts which, as Mayhew reports them, so often have the ring of truth. One of the most compelling series of portraits drawn by Mayhew relates to dustmen and the disposal of refuse. The cogency of this section certainly did not derive from interviews at second or third hand conducted in a clean office. Readers of Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend will recall Boffin and the dust yard… Mayhew provides an authentic context for a setting in the novel which might otherwise be regarded as fancifully grotesque.

As for the reference to statistics, it is clear that Mayhew regarded them as an important and intrinsic part of his work, although for the modern reader they are perhaps the least valuable part of the survey. What makes it live is the record of human experience. From that above all ‘Mayhew’s London’ draws its end

• Book Name: London Labour and the London Poor- Selections pdf
• Author Name Henry Mayhew
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 1985

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