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    Henry Mayhew at 200 – the ‘Other’ Victorian Bicentenary


    Roddy, Sarah, Strange, Julie-Marie and Taithe, Bertrand (2014) Henry Mayhew at 200 – the ‘Other’ Victorian Bicentenary. Journal of Victorian Culture, 19 (4). pp. 481-496. ISSN 1355-5502

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    Abstract

    The New Agenda introduction puts forward the case for a much-needed revision of the scholarship devoted to Henry Mayhew – journalist and wit, playwright, co-founder of Punch, educational writer, novelist for children, travel writer, hack, social explorer and author of London Labour and the London Poor. It argues for a more intertextual and contextual reading of his major and minor works, and presents the articles contained in this new agenda special issue. The complex publishing history of Henry Mayhew's work and of London Labour and the London Poor in particular are explored in part one. The second part surveys the scholarship so far devoted to Mayhew and sketches out a new agenda for research based on a wider intratextual and intertextual approach to Mayhew's corpus. It is time, the introduction urges, for Victorianists to revisit Henry Mayhew.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Henry Mayhew; Victorian Bicentenary;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
    Item ID: 19748
    Identification Number: 10.1080/13555502.2014.968362
    Depositing User: Dr Sarah Roddy
    Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2025 12:11
    Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Victorian Culture
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19748
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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