LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Some reactions to Henry Mayhew’s work on London Labor and London Poor might be described as:
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sensationalism: the attraction of repulsion and shock.
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horror: the discovery that people in a major city live like “savages.”
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sympathy: pity for the destitute women and children in a major industrial city. like London.
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All of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Mayhew wrote for newspapers most of his life. His was plagued by financial problems, and even declared bankruptcy. He wrote the articles and pamphlets that later became London Labour and the London Poor purely for financial reasons.
Detailed explanation-2: -Henry Mayhew’s collected articles on poverty were eventually published as London Labour and London Poor (1851). Mayhew’s investigation into the plight of the poor revealed the impact that unemployment, starvation and disease was having on the working class.
Detailed explanation-3: -London labour and the London poor; a cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. By Henry Mayhew.
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