The writing culture of ordinary people in Europe, c. 1860-1920 /

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Author / Creator:Lyons, Martyn.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2013, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:Written communication -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Written communication -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
Written communication.
Schrijven.
Schriftelijke communicatie.
Europe.
Europa (geografie)
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12630510
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ISBN:9781139776615
1139776614
9781139093538
1139093533
1283746425
9781283746427
9781139779654
1139779656
9781107018891
1107018897
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of them, previously barely literate and unaccustomed to writing, began to communicate on paper. This fascinating account explores this surge of ordinary writing, how people met the new challenges of literacy and the importance of scribal culture to the history of individual experience in modern Europe. Focusing on correspondence and other writing genres produced by French and Italian soldiers in the trenches in the First World War, as well as Spanish emigrants to the Americas, the book reveals how these writings were influenced by dialect and oral speech and were oblivious to the rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation. Through their sometimes moving stories, we gain an insight into the importance to ordinary peasants of family, village and nation at a time of rapid social and cultural change"--
Other form:Print version: Lyons, Martyn. Writing culture of ordinary people in Europe, c. 1860-1920. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2013, ©2013 9781107018891
Standard no.:40021781979