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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Martyn LyonsPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.548kg ISBN: 9781526170750ISBN 10: 1526170752 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 05 December 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsNotes on contributors 1 The common writer in history – Martyn Lyons 2 Writings on the walls: approaches to graffiti in the early modern Hispanic world – Antonio Castillo Gómez 3 ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’: the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s – Steven King 4 Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below – Stephan Elspaß 5 Narrating injuries and injustices: life stories in the struggle for working-class rights in Britain, 1820-1945 – T. G. Ashplant 6 Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844 – David A. Gerber 7 Pen, paper and peasants: the rise of vernacular literacy practices in nineteenth-century Iceland – Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson 8 Questioning ‘the common writer’: ordinary writings from the Emagusheni trading station, Pondoland, 1880-84 – Liz Stanley 9 Madlands: Vincenzo Rabito as a writer – David Moss 10 Copying, citing and creative rewriting: the transmission of texts and ideas in Finnish handwritten newspapers – Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Risto Turunen 11 Choreographing correspondences: how the state shaped soldiers’ mail in the US and Red Armies during the Second World War – Brandon Schechter 12 ‘Dear Prime Minister’: the rhetoric of apology and affiliation in letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-66 – Martyn Lyons Select bibliography -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationMartyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor in History at the University of New South Wales -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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