Secret Commissions : An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

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Secret Commissions : An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781551113302
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Full Description

Lurid, controversial, and vulnerable to accusations of titillation or rabble-rousing, the works of Victorian investigative journalism collected here nonetheless brought unseen suffering into the light of day. Even today their exposure has the power to shock. As one investigator promised, "The Report of our Secret Commission will be read to-day with a shuddering horror that will thrill throughout the world."

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism. Their authors range from well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry Mayhew, and W.T. Stead to now-forgotten names such as Hugh Shimmin, Elizabeth Banks, and Olive Malvery. Collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." The reports address topics as varied as child abuse, animal cruelty, juvenile prostitution, sweat-shops, slums, gypsies, abortion, infanticide, and other controversial social issues. The collection features detailed chapter introductions, original illustrations, a historical overview of investigative reporting in the nineteenth-century press, and suggestions for further reading.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on Money

ANGUS REACH, "Labour and the Poor: The Manufacturing Districts" (1849)
HENRY MAYHEW, "Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts" (1849)
CHARLES DICKENS, "A Sleep to Startle Us" (1852)
HUGH SHIMMIN, "Liverpool Life" (1856)
JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, "London Horrors" (1861)
MARY CARPENTER, "On the Treatment of Female Convicts" (1863)
JAMES GREENWOOD, "A Night in a Workhouse" (1866)
"A.B.," "Baby Farming" (1870)
HENRY LABOUCHERE, "Inside Newgate" (1872)
J. EWING RITCHIE, "In a Gipsy Camp" (1879)
GEORGE R. SIMS, "How the Poor Live" (1883)
W.T. STEAD, "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" (1885)
ANNIE BESANT, "White Slavery in London" (1888)
BEATRICE POTTER, "Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary" (1888)
ELIZABETH BANKS, "In Cap and Apron" (1893)
HERBERT CADETT, "Massacre of the Innocents" (1895)
ROBERT H. SHERARD, "The White Slaves of England" (1897)
MARY HIGGS, "The Tramp Ward" (1904)
OLIVE CHRISTIAN MALVERY, "The Edge of the Street" (1904)

Further Reading