Vagabonds: life on the streets of nineteenth-century London

British historian brought Dickensian London to real and vivid life. Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers - Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical, but always t...

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Main Author: Cox Jensen, Oskar 1988- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Duckworth 2022
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Summary:British historian brought Dickensian London to real and vivid life. Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers - Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical, but always those of outsiders. Now, for the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly - and radically - shows us the city's most compelling period (1780-1870) at street level. From beggars and thieves to musicians and missionaries, porters and hawkers to sex workers and street criers, Jensen unites a breadth of original research and first-hand accounts and testimonies to tell their stories in their own words. What emerges is a buzzing, cosmopolitan world of the working classes, diverse in gender, ethnicity, origin, ability and occupation - a world that challenges and fascinates us still
Physical Description:xxvi, 325 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts 24 cm
ISBN:9780715654392

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