Martyn Lyons
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3751172 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Martyn Lyons |
| PRENOMES | Martyn |
| SOBRENOME | Lyons |
| ASSINATURA | LYONS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7496-541X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Joseph Jenkins’s Australian Diary
Joseph Jenkins emigrated to Australia from his native Wales in 1869. He worked as an itinerant agricultural worker in the Ballarat and Castlemaine area of Victoria before returning to Wales in 1894. For almost sixty years, he assiduously maintained a diary, which probably comprised fifty-eight volumes in all. This article examines the twenty-five annual volumes that survive for his Australian years. The article investigates Jenkins’s phenomenal s…
The Mistral
Understanding the Writing Revolution of the Late Nineteenth Century
The History of the Book has over-stressed the history of print at the expense of the study of manuscript culture. It has equally privileged the history of reading over the history of writing. Equilibrium needs to be restored in both of these domains. This article argues for the importance of manuscript culture in the modern era, and pursues this notion through an explanation of the “writing revolution,” seen as an enormous increase in the volume …
Posting the nation
The common writer in modern history
Common Writer in Modern History
Philippe Artières, Un Séminariste assassin
At the end of the nineteenth and in the early years of the twentieth century, encouraging violent criminals to write their life stories became an accepted tool of forensic medicine. The autobiographical texts which emerged became vital building blocks in the psychological diagnosis of the subject. One of the leading international exponents of this method was the Lyon-based professor Alexandre Lacassagne, who developed a science of criminal anthro…
Writing Upwards
Robert Gordon Menzies received approximately 22,000 letters during his record-breaking second term of office as Australia’s Prime Minister (1949–66). This article examines the corpus as an example of “writing upwards,” a distinctive epistolary genre in which the weak wrote to the powerful, to praise them, berate them, abuse them, or perhaps wish them a happy birthday. From this perspective, the Menzies correspondence takes its place alongside the…
Robert Darnton. A Literary Tour de France
Robert Darnton has attained an almost godlike status among book historians and dix-huitièmistes (scholars of the eighteenth century) for his foundational work on the sales of the great Encyclopédie and on the clandestine book trade in prerevolutionary France. A process of desacralization is now under way, as big data projects expose the shortcomings of his pioneering research into the voluminous records of the Swiss publishing house the Société t…
Gutenberg's Europe
Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity . By Frédéric Barbier, translated by Jean Birrell (Cambridge UK and Malden MA: Polity Press, 2016), pp.xiv +312, illustrated, £55.00 (cloth)
Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France
Lothar Müller, White Magic
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
Publishing Policies and Family Strategies
"Publishing Policies and Family Strategies: The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries." The European Legacy, 21(4), pp. 435–436
Writing Upwards
Journal Article Writing Upwards: How the Weak Wrote to the Powerful Get access Martyn Lyons Martyn Lyons Address correspondence to Martyn Lyons, School of Humanities & Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Winter 2015, Pages 317–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shv038 P…
The Functions and Purpose of Vernacular Literacy
One key to understanding any past society, Armando Petrucci argued, is to grasp the uses it makes of reading and writing, its unequal social distribution of literacy skills and the functions it assigns to written and printed products.1 Bearing these principles in mind, historians of reading and writing now investigate literacy not as a skill which is either acquired or not, but as a set of cultural practices which we must situate historically in …
Questo cor che tuo si rese’
Love letters are attracting increasing scholarly attention, especially from historians of scribal culture and historians of emotions. This article brings these two strands together to explore the unpublished love letters of four Italian women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Their letters, spanning a period from the 1840s up to the First World War, provide insights into the genre, and into women's lives and emotions in this per…
The Power of the Scribe
Although historians of modern literacy acknowledge the presence of ‘scribes’, they leave several questions unanswered: Who had recourse to ‘scribes’? For what specific purposes did delegated writing take place? Who were the ‘scribes’? What was their relationship with authors? In offering some answers, I draw on what we already know about delegated writing in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe, supplemented by original research on the w…
Roger Chartier, The Author’s Hand and the Printer’s Mind
Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches 1914-1918 (France and Italy)
I draw on evidence from French and Italian soldiers in the First World War to argue that ordinary soldiers in the trenches constituted a reading community, where soldiers shared similar values, and similar expectations of and appetites for reading. In some ways, they formed more of a reading community than their superior officers. At the same time, the trenches were also writing communities in which soldiers plunged into an epistolary frenzy of i…
Controlling Time and Shaping the Self
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
This is a book which book historians have badly needed for some time—a book about non-readers. Non-readers are not to be confused with illiterates; Leah Price defines them as book handlers who use
Celestial letters
Although historians and anthropologists of writing have studied writings to god, correspondence in the other direction-letters from heaven-have been neglected. Celestial letters had medieval origins and appear in many national and religious contexts. This article is based on forty-one nineteenth-century examples: forty of them are French and survive in printed form and one, exceptional because it is handwritten, is a Spanish manuscript. in analys…
A Reader on Reading
What distinguishes homo sapiens from other species? The answer, according to Alberto Manguel, is reading. He means not simply book-reading, for what defines humans is also our reading of buildings
Literacy in Everyday Life
By Jeroen Blaak. Translated by Beverly Jackson (Leiden: Brill, 2009), xiii + 422 pp. €105.00/$144.00 cloth. This is the second volume to appear in Brill’s excellent Egodocuments and History series
A New History from Below? The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe
The 'Old History From Below' was dominated by two influential historiographical schools: the French Annales school and the British Marxists. Both tended to view the subordinate classes in collective and anonymous terms, analysing collective activism or collective mentalities. The 'New History from Below' is distinctive because it is based on writings from the grassroots and because it focuses on individual experiences of historical change. We can…
Writing Upwards
Journal Article Writing Upwards: How the Weak Wrote to the Powerful Get access Martyn Lyons Martyn Lyons Address correspondence to Martyn Lyons, School of Humanities & Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Winter 2015, Pages 317–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shv038 P…
Love Letters and Writing Practices
Recent approaches to the history of nineteenth-century writing focus not on the contents of intimate writing but rather on letters as cultural artifacts. What is important is what their existence tells us about the act of writing as a cultural practice and about what writing meant to those who practiced it. Personal writings are highly coded forms, obeying generally accepted conventions and applying and adapting unspoken formulas. Using examples …
Napoleon and His Collaborators
Journal Article Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship Get access Martyn Lyons Martyn Lyons Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 474, November 2002, Pages 1277–1279, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.474.1277 Published: 01 November 2002
The Autodidacts and their Literary Culture
Politics and Patois
Questo cor che tuo si rese’
Love letters are attracting increasing scholarly attention, especially from historians of scribal culture and historians of emotions. This article brings these two strands together to explore the unpublished love letters of four Italian women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Their letters, spanning a period from the 1840s up to the First World War, provide insights into the genre, and into women's lives and emotions in this per…
Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France
Introduction The New Readers of Nineteenth-Century France Reading Workers: Libraries for the People Reading Workers: Improvisation and Resistance Reading Women: From Emma Bovary to the New Woman Reading Women: Defining a Space of Her Own Reading Peasants: The Pragmatic Uses of the Written Word Reading Classes and Dangerous Classes Appendix A: Popular Uses of the Book in Early Twentieth-Century France Appendix B: Thirty Works for Peasant Readers B…
Oral Culture and Rural Community in Nineteenth-Century France
The Audience for Romanticism
France under the Directory
France under the Directory
M.-G.-A.- Vadier (1736-1828)
Within the field of French Revolutionary historiography, biography remains one of the least fashionable of the historical arts. Jacobinism, for example, has often been analyzed as an ideology, an institutional structure, a popular movement, or an expression of the class struggle.' There is still, however, a need to supplement such broadly based and sometimes overschematic studies by a consideration of the individuals who became Jacobins, of their…
Recent Interpretations of the French Directory
Politics and Patois
La Jeunesse Dorée
The Audience for Romanticism
Oral Culture and Rural Community in Nineteenth-Century France
The Autodidacts and their Literary Culture
Towards a national literary culture in France
(1993). Towards a national literary culture in France: Homogeneity and the 19th century reading public. History of European Ideas: Vol. 16, No. 1-3, pp. 247-252
A History of the French Working Class, Vol. 2, Workers and the Bourgeois Republic, 1871-1939
Australian Readers Remember
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of the Consulate, the consolidator of the Em
France's Overseas Frontier
Australian Readers Remember. An oral History of Reading 1890-1930
France's Overseas Frontier
La remise en cause d'une histoire nationaliste de l'Australie
En 1917 eut lieu a Sydney le plus grand conflit du travail de toute I'histoire australienne. La greve se declencha quand le Departement des chemins de fer et tramways de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud prit la decision unilaterale d'introduire un systeme de pointage. Demarrant a Sydney, le mouvement s'etendit aux regions industrielles de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud et des Etats voisins. En octobre il touchait plus de 95 000 travailleurs, soit 14 % de la popula…
France and the South Pacific
A colonial past debacle in Vanuatu New Caledonia 1945-78 - opportunities lost New Caledonia 1978-89 - the Tjibaou era French Polynesia 1945-82 - from trading colony to nuclear territory French Polynesia 1983-90 - towards independence-in-association? France's nuclear testing programme Wallis and Futuna - ripples in a backwater France and the region conclusion - the French Pacific into the 1990s
France in the Pacific
Working-class autobiographers in nineteenth-century Europe
(1995). Working-class autobiographers in nineteenth-century Europe: Some Franco-British comparisons. History of European Ideas: Vol. 20, No. 1-3, pp. 235-241
The end of the annales? Some thoughts on the so-called death of the French historical school
(1996). The end of the annales? Some thoughts on the so‐called death of the French historical school. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 8-13
What did the Peasants Read? Written and Printed Culture in Rural France, 1815-1914
Love Letters and Writing Practices
Recent approaches to the history of nineteenth-century writing focus not on the contents of intimate writing but rather on letters as cultural artifacts. What is important is what their existence tells us about the act of writing as a cultural practice and about what writing meant to those who practiced it. Personal writings are highly coded forms, obeying generally accepted conventions and applying and adapting unspoken formulas. Using examples …
The history of reading from Gutenberg to gates
(1999). The history of reading from Gutenberg to gates. The European Legacy: Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 50-57
Pour une histoire orale de la lecture. Pratiques de lecture en Australie, 1890-1930
■ Martyn Lyons : Pour une histoire orale de la lecture. Pratiques de lecture en Australie, 1890-1930 Cet article présente quelques réflexions sur un projet d'histoire orale sur les pratiques de lecture en Australie, dirigé par ; l'auteur, avec la collaboration de Lucy Taksa, et basé sur une série d'entretiens avec soixante et une personnes âgées de Sydney et sa région. L'article présente les méthodes de recherche utilisées et quelques problèmes q…
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