La déviance sociale à Londres vue par une enquêtrice socialiste française : Flora Tristan et les Promenades dans Londres (1840)
As early as the Restoration and even more still during the July Monarchy, many French social investigators chose to study England. They came from all social backgrounds and political parties and analysed the most industrialised country in Europe as the laboratory of the future. They focused on socia...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/14118 |
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| Summary: | As early as the Restoration and even more still during the July Monarchy, many French social investigators chose to study England. They came from all social backgrounds and political parties and analysed the most industrialised country in Europe as the laboratory of the future. They focused on social contrasts and on the miserable living and working conditions of the proletariat. One may therefore wonder where Flora Tristan’s originality lay when she undertook to write about these deviancies. This question is all the more interesting as she was a self-taught writer, her childhood as an orphan having provided her with but a rudimentary education. Do her lack of culture and the difficulty she felt in dealing with her topic objectively impair the quality of the opinions she expressed in her book ? The huge success of London Walks among Socialist groups and the working classes proves the opposite and stresses the novelty of her analyses. Her female condition did not restrict the scope of her understanding of what she examined and her sense of being herself an outcast enabled her to provide an insider’s view of the conditions of the people she came in contact with. |
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| ISSN: | 0220-5610 2271-6149 |