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Approaches to the History of Written Culture; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 A World Inscribed
Introduction; Approaching the History of Scribal Culture; The Social Practice of Literacy; 'Re-purposing' and the Question of Genre; Vernacular Writing; The Visibility of the History of Writing; Notes; 2 The Babylonian Scribes and Their Libraries; Introduction; The Library of Nineveh; The Library of Babylon; Mesopotamian Scribes and the Transmission of the Scholarly Tradition; Notes; 3 Writings in the Korean Han'gŭl Script by and for the Women of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910); Notes.
4 Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-Modern AgeNotes; 5 Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World; Introduction; Information and Propaganda; Signs of Protest; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Writing One's Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing; Introduction; Popular Culture and the Anthropology of Writing; Extraordinary Men 'Without Distinction': The Compagnons of the Tour de France; Erudite Lives; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland.
Life Writing 'from Below'Autobiographical Poems; 'After-Memories', Family Inscriptions and the Chronicle; From Calendar to Diary; Expressing Emotions in Life Writing; Romantic Discourse in Diaries; Pre-Texts of Ida Digert's Diary; Hybridity and Intimacy Re-considered; Notes; 8 Reading the 'Cheyenne Letter': Towards a Typology of Inscription beyond the Alphabet; Notes; 9 The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History; Childhood, Writing and History; The Written Memory of Childhood and Infancy; A Fragmentary History; Conclusion; Notes.
10 Policing Writing in the City, 1852-1945: The Invention of Scriptural DelinquencyIntroduction; Inventing a New Reader; A New Focus on Written Objects; Writing about Writing; Items Lost and Found; Deposited Writings; Notes; 11 QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices; Introduction; The Typewriter and Modernity; The Distancing Effect; Henry James; Jack Kerouac and the Romantic Typewriter; Conclusions; Notes; 12 The Future of the History of Writing; 'Writing Never Arrives Naked'; Research Agendas: Correspondence; Research Agendas: The Sites of Writing.
Introduction; Approaching the History of Scribal Culture; The Social Practice of Literacy; 'Re-purposing' and the Question of Genre; Vernacular Writing; The Visibility of the History of Writing; Notes; 2 The Babylonian Scribes and Their Libraries; Introduction; The Library of Nineveh; The Library of Babylon; Mesopotamian Scribes and the Transmission of the Scholarly Tradition; Notes; 3 Writings in the Korean Han'gŭl Script by and for the Women of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910); Notes.
4 Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-Modern AgeNotes; 5 Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World; Introduction; Information and Propaganda; Signs of Protest; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Writing One's Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing; Introduction; Popular Culture and the Anthropology of Writing; Extraordinary Men 'Without Distinction': The Compagnons of the Tour de France; Erudite Lives; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland.
Life Writing 'from Below'Autobiographical Poems; 'After-Memories', Family Inscriptions and the Chronicle; From Calendar to Diary; Expressing Emotions in Life Writing; Romantic Discourse in Diaries; Pre-Texts of Ida Digert's Diary; Hybridity and Intimacy Re-considered; Notes; 8 Reading the 'Cheyenne Letter': Towards a Typology of Inscription beyond the Alphabet; Notes; 9 The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History; Childhood, Writing and History; The Written Memory of Childhood and Infancy; A Fragmentary History; Conclusion; Notes.
10 Policing Writing in the City, 1852-1945: The Invention of Scriptural DelinquencyIntroduction; Inventing a New Reader; A New Focus on Written Objects; Writing about Writing; Items Lost and Found; Deposited Writings; Notes; 11 QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices; Introduction; The Typewriter and Modernity; The Distancing Effect; Henry James; Jack Kerouac and the Romantic Typewriter; Conclusions; Notes; 12 The Future of the History of Writing; 'Writing Never Arrives Naked'; Research Agendas: Correspondence; Research Agendas: The Sites of Writing.