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

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.