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Author:   Martyn Lyons ,  Rita Marquilhas
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.454kg
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9783319853284

ISBN 10:   3319853287
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. A World Inscribed - Introduction.- 2. The Babylonian Scribes and their Libraries.- 3. Writings in the Korean Han’gŭl Script by and for the Women of Chosŏn Korea.- 4. Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-modern Age.- 5. Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World.- 6. Writing One’s Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing.- 7. Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland.- 8. Reading the ‘Cheyenne Letter’: Towards a Typology of Inscription Beyond the Alphabet.- 9. The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History.- 10.  Policing Writing in the City, 1852-1945: The Invention of Scriptural Delinquency.- 11. QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices.- 12.  The Future of the History of Writing.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published many books and articles on the history of reading and writing in Europe and Australia including A History of Reading & Writing in the Western World (Palgrave, 2010) and The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-c.1920 (2013). He has previously published 4 titles with Palgrave Macmillan. Rita Marquilhas is Associate Professor in General & Romance Linguistics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and chief investigator on the 'Postscriptum Project – A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writingsin Early Modern Portugal and Spain'. She is the author of several articles on the social history of language.

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