Luke Seaber - Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation
Published: 2017-05-09 | ISBN: 3319509616 | PDF | 274 pages | 15.25 MB
This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts – in other words, works detailing their authors’ experiences whilst pretending to be poor. The most famous example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a vast array of other works in the genre since it was created in 1866 by James Greenwood’s ‘A Night in a Workhouse’.