By Troy Boone
Adolescence of Darkest England examines the illustration of English working-class young children, the younger population of the negative city neighbourhoods variety of writers dubbed "darkest England", in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. specifically, the booklet specializes in how the writings for and approximately adolescence undertook an ideological undertaking to enlist operating type childrens into the British imperial firm. Lucidly written and punctiliously researched, this booklet will make an incredible contribution to our realizing of adlescent tradition and kid's literature within the 19th century.
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It is perhaps needless to add that these physical manifestations are not identified with the middle classes but with the outcast poor. Indeed, what appears to be the most progressive feature of London Labour—the interview structure that allows the poor to represent themselves—in fact enables Mayhew to reinforce the veracity of his own depiction of working-class embodiment and lack of vision by presenting this depiction as one offered by his interviewees themselves. In a particularly striking encounter, a street-photographer who supports himself by selling inferior portraits to East Enders declares of his customers, “People won’t use their eyes” (LL 3:207): If the eyes in a portrait are not seen, and they complain, we take a pin and dot them; and that brings the eye out, and they like it.
The term ‘sonqua’ meaning literally pauper” (LL 1:1). However, by comparing the middle-class English to Kafirs, Fellahs, and Hottentots—all groups subject to colonial rule by the mid-Victorian period—Mayhew offers the sinister suggestion that the outcast status of the urban poor, and the resulting lack of national unity, could render England itself vulnerable to colonization by a more powerful imperial force. ” In contrast to the introductory statement of the problem—which relies on an attention-grabbing parallel between the English working classes and colonized natives—the bulk of the succeeding three volumes of London Labour seeks to demonstrate that the mobile, but unregulated, working classes exist outside national life not due to any essential difference from the English middle classes, but due to ignorance on the part of the poor.
LL 1:444) By selling his reportage to middle-class readers, Mayhew seeks to expand their knowledge and thus refine their vision of the poor—unlike the working-class vendor of spectacles, who in effect peddles blindness to workers with good eyesight. If Mayhew implies the desirability of a bettereducated working-class population that can be incorporated into the life of the nation and empire, he nevertheless also implies that visual power and authoritative representation lie with the middle-class writer and reader.