Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526170744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This 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.
The common writer in modern history
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526170744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526170744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This 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.
The New Deal
Author: Michael Hiltzik
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439154481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439154481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.
The Common Writer
Author: Nigel Cross
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521357210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521357210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.
Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern
Author: Johann Lorenz Mosheim
Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Studies in English and American Literature, from Chaucer to the Present Time
Author: Albert Newton Raub
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Birmingham Group
Author: Robin Harriott
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031143833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre which had by this time become Britain’s second city. Presumed ‘guilty by association’ with a working-class literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast markedly with other examples of working-class writing produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and intersectional approach to issues of working-class identity.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031143833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre which had by this time become Britain’s second city. Presumed ‘guilty by association’ with a working-class literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast markedly with other examples of working-class writing produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and intersectional approach to issues of working-class identity.
A Dictionary of Science, Literature & Art ...
Author: William Thomas Brande
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Steel's Shipmaster's Assistant: for the Use of Merchants, Owners, and Masters of Vessels, Officers of Customs, ... Measures, and Exchanges, and Naval Book-keeping
Author: Graham Willmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description