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The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-1920 (Paperback)
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The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-1920 (Paperback)
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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.
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