Representing the Slum: Popular Journalism in a Late Nineteenth-Century City

by A.J.C. Mayne

Contrasts of wealth an poverty are now widely recognized as having been an enduring feature of urbanization in the nineteenth century. Less evident, however, are the shared forms and meanings of language by which contemporaries sought to make sense of the uneven life chances which characterized urban living.

187 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1991