Common Writer in Modern History

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-20
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieManchester University Press
Antal sidor264
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526194794

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Notes on contributors1 The common writer in history – Martyn Lyons2 Writings on the walls: approaches to graffiti in the early modern Hispanic world – Antonio Castillo Gómez3 ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’: the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s – Steven King4 Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below – Stephan Elspaß5 Narrating injuries and injustices: life stories in the struggle for working-class rights in Britain, 1820-1945 – T. G. Ashplant6 Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844 – David A. Gerber7 Pen, paper and peasants: the rise of vernacular literacy practices in nineteenth-century Iceland – Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson8 Questioning ‘the common writer’: ordinary writings from the Emagusheni trading station, Pondoland, 1880-84 – Liz Stanley9 Madlands: Vincenzo Rabito as a writer – David Moss10 Copying, citing and creative rewriting: the transmission of texts and ideas in Finnish handwritten newspapers – Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Risto Turunen11 Choreographing correspondences: how the state shaped soldiers’ mail in the US and Red Armies during the Second World War – Brandon Schechter12 ‘Dear Prime Minister’: the rhetoric of apology and affiliation in letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-66 – Martyn LyonsSelect bibliography