{"product_id":"the-common-writer-in-modern-history-9781526170750","title":"The Common Writer in Modern History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e1        The common writer in history – \u003ci\u003eMartyn Lyons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2        Writings on the walls: approaches to graffiti in the early modern Hispanic world – \u003ci\u003eAntonio Castillo Gómez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3        ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’: the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s – \u003ci\u003eSteven King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4        Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below – \u003ci\u003eStephan Elspaß\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5        Narrating injuries and injustices: life stories in the struggle for working-class rights in Britain, 1820-1945 – \u003ci\u003eT. G. Ashplant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6        Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844 – \u003ci\u003eDavid A. Gerber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7        Pen, paper and peasants: the rise of vernacular literacy practices in nineteenth-century Iceland – \u003ci\u003eSigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8        Questioning ‘the common writer’: ordinary writings from the Emagusheni trading station, Pondoland, 1880-84 – \u003ci\u003eLiz Stanley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9        Madlands: Vincenzo Rabito as a writer – \u003ci\u003eDavid Moss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10    Copying, citing and creative rewriting: the transmission of texts and ideas in Finnish handwritten newspapers – \u003ci\u003eKirsti Salmi-Niklander and Risto Turunen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11    Choreographing correspondences: how the state shaped soldiers’ mail in the US and Red Armies during the Second World War – \u003ci\u003eBrandon Schechter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12    ‘Dear Prime Minister’: the rhetoric of apology and affiliation in letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-66 – \u003ci\u003eMartyn Lyons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelect bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041037254999,"sku":"9781526170750","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526170750.jpg?v=1750948701","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-common-writer-in-modern-history-9781526170750","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}