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Writing Competence – Difficulties, Prejudices and Motives

Anna Kuismin. Ploughing with the Pen. Metapoetic Elements in Finnish Nineteenth-Century Peasant Poetry

Ilkka Mäkinen. “The world will be turned upside down, when even the maids are taught to write.” Prejudices Against Teaching All People to Write in Nineteenth Century Finland

Laura Stark. Motives for Writing and Attitudes Regarding Writing Ability Among Rural Commoners in Finland 1840–1900

Genres and Literacy Practices

T. G. Ashplant. The Oral, the Aural and the Written. Genre and Discourse in a British Working-Class Life Narrative 

Ann-Catrine Edlund. The Songbook and The Peasant Diary. As Participants in the Construction of the Modern Self 

Anne Heimo. Socialist Endeavors, Fist Presses and Pen Wars. Literacy Practices of Early Finnish Migrants in Australia 

Emese Ilyefalvi. ”When you have read my letter, pass it on!” A Special Means of Communication by a Calvinist Minister Between the Two World Wars in Transylvania 

Matija Ogrin. Manuscripts of Slovenian Peasant Writers and Readers. Genres, Subjects, Reception 

Karin Strand. Street Ballads Spreading the Word. The Case of “The Two Maids Who Married Each Other”

Orality and Literacy

Marija Dalbello. Reading Immigrants. Immigration as Site and Process of Reading and Writing 

Marijke van der Wal and Gisjbert Rutten. At the Crossroads. Orality and Literacy in Early and Late Modern Dutch Private Letters 

Jill Puttaert. Linguistic Hybridity in Nineteenth-Century Lower-Class Letters. A Case Study from Bruges

Literacy and Agency

Ann O´Bryan. “Sparse and Multiple Traces”. The Literacy Practices of African-American Pioneers in the NineteenthCentury Frontier 

Ana Rita Leitão. Documentary Evidence in Early Modern Portugal and Overseas. A Window to Literacy Practices 

Aile Möldre. An Autodidact Agent of Estonian Book Culture. The Case of Tõnu Franzdorf (1862–1940) 

Mike Sanders. From ‘Technical’ to ‘Cultural’ Literacy. Reading and Writing within the British Chartist Movement