Martyn Lyons

The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860 1920

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781107018891
• ISBN-10: 1107018897
• Artikelnr.: 36028019

Autorenporträt

Martyn Lyons is Professor of History and European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His previous publications include A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World (2010) and Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ordinary writings, extraordinary authors
2. Archives for an alternative history
3. 'Excuse my bad writing'
4. Literary temptations
5. France: transparency and disguise in the poilus' letters, 1914-18
6. France: national identity from below and the discovery of the 'lost provinces', 1914-19
7. Family, village and motherland in Italian soldiers' writing, 1915-18
8. Italian identities 'from below' and ordinary writings from the Trentino
9. Love, death, and writing on the Italian Front, 1915-18
10. Spain: emergency literacy and the nostalgia of exile, 1820s-1920s
11. Family strategy and individual identities in Spanish emigrants' letters
12. Order and disorder in the 'memory books'
13. Conclusions
Bibliography.