Wulgarity and Witality: On Making a Spectacle of Oneself in Pickwick
In Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1861), a massive, four-volume survey of urban workers living on the economic margins of Victorian society, city streets offer up plenty of appalling working-class vulgarity - strident voices, coarse language, gaudy clothing, and brazen behavi...
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