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Literacy in everyday life : reading and writing in early modern Dutch diaries /
Focusing on four Dutch diaries from different periods of the early modern age, this book describes in detail the diversified use of reading in everyday life, examining it in a wider context of communication that also includes writing and speech.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Egodocuments and history series ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations and Archive Names
- Chapter I
- Historical Research on Reading and Writing: From Book Ownership to the Use of Media
- The History of reading
- The history of reading as a research field
- A different perspective: Reading within the framework of media history
- Research on historical readers
- Research on historical reading behaviour
- Egodocuments as source material
- Structure of the book
- Chapter II
- Mirror of Literacy: Reading and Writing in the Diary (1624) of David Beck
- A German schoolmaster in the Dutch Republic
- 'Mirror of my life'
- The conversation of the day
- Writing habits
- Conversation at a distance: correspondence
- Writing at school
- Income and expenditure in writing
- Paper poetry: the oeuvre of the poet David Beck
- Writing poetry and everyday life
- Publication in manuscript form
- 'Mousing and rummaging': Beck's reading behaviour
- Handwritten reading
- Poetic taste: Beck's reading of printed texts
- Aging French poems and topical Dutch prose
- Beck's books in other sources
- 'Nosing around' in bookshops or at the Binnenhof
- Books in everyday life
- Diverse ways of reading
- Reading in order to write
- Final remarks
- Chapter III
- Aristocratic Literacy: Pieter Teding van Berkhout and his 'Journal' (16698211;1712)
- The life of a gentleman of rank
- 'Journal contenant mes occupations'
- Final remarks
- The aristocratisation of everyday conversation?
- Putting pen to paper
- Written contacts: correspondence and writing style
- Writing and family history
- Political notes
- A lifetime of reading
- Teding van Berkhout's library
- A historical taste
- Reading 224; la mode
- An unusual taste?
- Purchases and gifts
- The delights of country life
- Reading a book
- Reading for edification and entertainment
- Chapter IV
- Aural and Eyewitness Testimony: Reading, Writing, and Discussions of Current Affairs in Jan de Boer's Chronological Journal (17478211;1758)13;
- The life of an Amsterdam clerk
- The diary or 'journal' of Jan de Boer
- Historiography of the news
- Final remarks
- The flow of information: De Boer's news sources
- News in the street
- News on printed paper
- The news of 1755
- News from many sides
- Reading the news: printed matter in the diary
- Newspapers
- Newspaper reports in the diary
- Information and discussion in pamphlets
- News in pamphlets
- 'Only an oortje': the distribution of pamphlets
- The anonymous author of the pamphlet 'Pro Patria'
- Pamphlet readers and their responses
- Other informative publications: ordinances, periodicals and prints
- News as history
- Chapter V
- A Devout Reader and Writer: Literacy in Jacoba van Thiel's 'Account-Book of the Soul' (17678211;1770)
- A life lived amid the clergy
- Daily register or 'account-book of the soul'
- Pious conversation
- A devout Christian woman with a pen
- Pious correspondence
- 'Somewhat free from the earth': on keeping a diary
- Piety with books: Van Thiel's reading
- A religious glutton
- Old or new?
- Readers of pious literature and readers of novels
- The parsonage library
- Relatives and women in Luchtmans' shop
- P.