The common writer in modern history
This book demonstrates the scope and achievements of the history of written culture, with particular reference to the writings of ordinary people. It underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes and the variety of uses to which it was put, and suggests that ordinary writers can b...
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| description | This book demonstrates the scope and achievements of the history of written culture, with particular reference to the writings of ordinary people. It underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes and the variety of uses to which it was put, and suggests that ordinary writers can be seen as active agents in their own histories, rather than as passive receptacles for official ideologies. Their writing provides the material for a ‘new history from below’. Twelve chapters touch on the continuing interrelationship between the written, the oral and print, as when speech and dialectal forms are incorporated into peasant letters and autobiographies, and when handwritten manuscript supersedes print as the favoured medium of transmission. The book illustrates the continuing importance of manuscript culture, and it incorporates a focus on life writing in various contexts, from the British tradition to a single case study of the autobiography of a Sicilian peasant. It analyses correspondence in different contexts, including paupers’ letters, soldiers’ letters, letters born of long-distance emigration, and ‘writing upwards’, in which the weak wrote to the powerful. All demonstrate the crucial importance of writing for people of modest social status and imperfect literacy competence. Overall, the contributions show the value of a multidisciplinary approach, and they have a broad geographical scope and a broad time span, stretching from the sixteenth century to the present. The collection has a dominant focus on western Europe, but it also embraces early modern Mexico, late nineteenth-century South Africa and mid-twentieth-century Australia. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1365452025-07-18T09:47:00Z The common writer in modern history Lyons, Martyn Scribal culture; Ordinary writings; New history from below; Life writing; Correspondance; Manuscript culture; Literacy; Graffiti; Historical sociolinguistics; Autobiography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 This book demonstrates the scope and achievements of the history of written culture, with particular reference to the writings of ordinary people. It underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes and the variety of uses to which it was put, and suggests that ordinary writers can be seen as active agents in their own histories, rather than as passive receptacles for official ideologies. Their writing provides the material for a ‘new history from below’. Twelve chapters touch on the continuing interrelationship between the written, the oral and print, as when speech and dialectal forms are incorporated into peasant letters and autobiographies, and when handwritten manuscript supersedes print as the favoured medium of transmission. The book illustrates the continuing importance of manuscript culture, and it incorporates a focus on life writing in various contexts, from the British tradition to a single case study of the autobiography of a Sicilian peasant. It analyses correspondence in different contexts, including paupers’ letters, soldiers’ letters, letters born of long-distance emigration, and ‘writing upwards’, in which the weak wrote to the powerful. All demonstrate the crucial importance of writing for people of modest social status and imperfect literacy competence. Overall, the contributions show the value of a multidisciplinary approach, and they have a broad geographical scope and a broad time span, stretching from the sixteenth century to the present. The collection has a dominant focus on western Europe, but it also embraces early modern Mexico, late nineteenth-century South Africa and mid-twentieth-century Australia. 2024-04-23T05:27:45Z 2024-04-23T05:27:45Z 2024-04-18T14:16:47Z 2024 book OCN: 1430797730 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89997 9781526170750 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136545 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89997/1/9781526170767_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89997/1/9781526170767_WEB.pdf Manchester University Press bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526170750 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 265 Manchester open access |
| spellingShingle | Scribal culture; Ordinary writings; New history from below; Life writing; Correspondance; Manuscript culture; Literacy; Graffiti; Historical sociolinguistics; Autobiography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 The common writer in modern history |
| title | The common writer in modern history |
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| topic | Scribal culture; Ordinary writings; New history from below; Life writing; Correspondance; Manuscript culture; Literacy; Graffiti; Historical sociolinguistics; Autobiography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 |
| topic_facet | Scribal culture; Ordinary writings; New history from below; Life writing; Correspondance; Manuscript culture; Literacy; Graffiti; Historical sociolinguistics; Autobiography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599 |
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