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Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature - Certainties in Degradation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature - Certainties in Degradation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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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'. It draws up a
classification of incognito social investigation texts, dividing
them into four subtypes. The first comprises those texts following
most narrowly in James Greenwood's footsteps, taking the extreme
poor as their object of study. The next is the investigation of
poverty through walking, for pedestrianism and poverty are
fascinatingly linked. The third is that of people looking at
relative poverty rather than absolute, where authors take on
badly-paid work in order to report on it, which is when incognito
social investigation becomes very much something carried out by
women. We end looking at those incognito social investigators who
settled in the areas they explored. Not only will this book recover
the history of a genre that has long been ignored, however, but it
will also offer significant close reading of many of the texts that
it places within the tradition(s) it discovers.
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