The common writer in modern history

The common writer in modern history

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ashplant, T. G., contributor (contributor), Elspaß, Stephan, contributor (editor), Gerber, David A., contributor, Gómez, Antonio Castillo, contributor, King, Steven, contributor, Lyons, Martyn, contributor, Lyons, Martyn, editor, Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi, contributor, Moss, David, contributor, Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti, contributor, Schechter, Brandon M., contributor, Stanley, Liz, contributor, Turunen, Risto, contributor, Ólafsson, Davíð, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press [2023]
Materias:
Working class authors > History and criticism.
HISTORY / Social History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1 The common writer in history
  • 2 Writings on the walls
  • 3 ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’
  • 4 Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below
  • 5 Narrating injuries and injustices
  • 6 Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844
  • 7 Pen, paper and peasants
  • 8 Questioning ‘the common writer’
  • 9 Madlands
  • 10 Copying, citing and creative rewriting
  • 11 Choreographing correspondences
  • 12 ‘Dear Prime Minister’
  • Select bibliography
  • Index

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