| Description |
1 online resource (159 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Literacy Series |
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Routledge Research in Literacy Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Data availability statement -- Chapter 1: The Edwardian postcard as a revolutionary communications technology -- The social media of the early twentieth century? -- Ethel's actress card and the Edwardian era -- My approaches to investigation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The early postcard -- Preparing for the picture postcard boom -- The introduction of the postcard -- Who was using postcards? -- The late Victorian postcard |
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Who were postcard producers? -- The great postcard innovation of 1902 -- The picture postcard and other communications technologies -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Researching the Edwardian postcard -- Introduction -- Literacy Studies and complementary approaches to vernacular or ordinary writing -- Previous studies of writing on postcards -- Collecting Edwardian postcards -- Data organisation and initial analysis -- Transcription -- Categorisation and initial analyses -- Using the census and other historical records -- Issues relating to people's circumstances |
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Issues deriving from the cards themselves -- Issues relating to the censuses: original collection and subsequent handling of the data -- Positive features of the censuses and historical records -- Limitations -- A case study of transcribing a card and accessing relevant historical records: card 554 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Materiality and multimodality -- Introduction -- Writers' use of space -- Orientation -- Writing implements -- Writing systems other than English language -- Multimodality and the undivided back subset -- Card content -- images |
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Contemporary texts and marks by publishers and the Post Office -- Postmarks -- Temporal analysis -- Places and links with other features -- Relationship of writers' texts and images -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: What were the Edwardians writing about? -- Mediated discourse analysis -- Corpus linguistics -- Preliminary investigation -- Towards a wordlist -- Keywords -- Working with #LancsBox -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: The lives of three young women through postcards: Annie Parrish, Janet Carmichael and Ruby Ingrey -- Women and their environments in the Edwardian era |
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Annie Parrish -- Janet Carmichael -- Ruby Ingrey -- Ruby and Arthur in postcards -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusions -- Introduction -- The picture postcard in the Edwardian era -- Comparisons with social media -- Contribution of this book -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of communication. It offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the postcard emerged; including how the postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication
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Manners and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000903874 |
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1000903877 |
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