The writing culture of ordinary people in Europe, c. 1860-1920 /
"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 or...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Ordinary writings, extraordinary authors; 2. Archives for an alternative history; 3. 'Excuse my bad writing'; 4. Literary temptations; 5. France: transparency and disguise in the poilus' letters, 1914-18; 6. France: national identity from below and the discovery of the 'lost provinces', 1914-19; 7. Family, village and motherland in Italian soldiers' writing, 1915-18; 8. Italian identities 'from below' and ordinary writings from the Trentino; 9. Love, death, and writing on the Italian Front, 1915-18; 10. Spain: emergency literacy and the nostalgia of exile, 1820s-1920s; 11. Family strategy and individual identities in Spanish emigrants' letters; 12. Order and disorder in the 'memory books'; 13. Conclusions; Bibliography.