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ROOKERY: The Brutal Reality Behind the Dickensian Myth
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- ISBN8233760150
- EAN9798233760150
- Date de parution27/02/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
London, 1849: The Smell Before the Coffins. ?Forget the flickering gaslight and the "lovable rogues" of Charles Dickens. In ROOKERY: The Filth, the Fear, and the Lie of Victorian London, the fog is stripped away to reveal a brutal forensic reality. ?Using parliamentary papers, sanitary commission reports, and sworn testimony, this investigative history performs a "post-mortem" on the Victorian slum.
From the ankle-deep sewage of Jacob's Island to the lethal overcrowding of St. Giles, discover the systemic greed that balanced landlord profit against human breath. ?Inside this "Forensic Dissection":?The Environmental Assessment: How contaminated wells and overflowing cesspools primed the city for cholera. ?Internal Economics: The subletting chains and absentee landlords who made squalor a profitable industry.
?Trauma Analysis: The reality of living "one wall away from the knife" in London's most dangerous mazes. ?This isn't a story of villains in top hats-it is the story of a system allowed to fester.
From the ankle-deep sewage of Jacob's Island to the lethal overcrowding of St. Giles, discover the systemic greed that balanced landlord profit against human breath. ?Inside this "Forensic Dissection":?The Environmental Assessment: How contaminated wells and overflowing cesspools primed the city for cholera. ?Internal Economics: The subletting chains and absentee landlords who made squalor a profitable industry.
?Trauma Analysis: The reality of living "one wall away from the knife" in London's most dangerous mazes. ?This isn't a story of villains in top hats-it is the story of a system allowed to fester.



















