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Title: The Common Writer in Modern History
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1526170752
EAN: 9781526170750
ISBN: 9781526170750
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 05/12/2023
Description: This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’ correspondence, handwritten newspapers and graffiti in streets and prisons, analysing the major genres of ‘ordinary writings’. The studies draw on different disciplines, including cultural history, sociology and ethnography, folklore studies, palaeography and socio-historical linguistics. They range from the early modern Hispanic Empire to twentieth-century Australia, including studies of modern Britain, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, South Africa and the USA. The book demonstrates the importance of studying manuscript culture to give a voice, a presence and dignity to the ordinary protagonists of history.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Contributor: Martyn Lyons (Edited by)
Author: Martyn Lyons
Genre: History
Item Width: 16mm
Item Weight: 548g
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Year: 2023

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