Handwritten Newspapers: An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander

2019年12月 · Studia Fennica: Historica 第 19 本图书 · Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

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This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change across the different forms and functions of the textual materials.

In the 16th century, handwritten newspapers evolved as a news medium reporting history in the making. It was both a rather expensive public commodity and a gift exchanged in social relationships. Both functions appealed to public elites and their news consumption for about 300 years. From the late 18th century onwards, changing notions of publicness as well as the social needs of private or even secluded groups re-defined the medium. Handwritten newspapers turned more and more into an internal or even clandestine medium of communication. As such, it has served as a means to create social cohesion, political debate, and religious education for nonelite groups until the 20th century. Despite these changes, continuities can be observed both in the material layout of handwritten newspapers and the practices of distribution.

作者简介

Heiko Droste ( https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2729-0656) studied history, library science and political science at different German universities. He worked from 2007 to 2015 at Södertörn University. Since July 2015 he has been Professor of History and head of the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University. Heiko Droste’s research concerns German, Swedish and Baltic history between the 14th and 18th centuries, mainly questions of town and court history, friendship and patronage, cultural transfer, and different aspects of the early modern media history. His book about the news market in the 17th century Das Geschäft mit Nachrichten. Ein barocker Markt für soziale Ressourcen (Edition Lumière 2018) will be published in English in 2020: The business of news. A baroque market for social resources (Brill).

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander ( https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-1801) is University Lecturer in Folklore Studies at Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. Her long-term research has focused on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium in 19th- and early 20th-century Finland, and in Finnish immigrant communities in North America. Her doctoral thesis Itsekasvatusta ja kapinaa [Self-education and Rebellion, Finnish Literature Society 2004] focused on handwritten newspapers, and she has published many articles and edited volumes related with this theme. Her other fields of interest include oral history research, working-class culture, immigrant culture and the history of youth. One of her recent publications is an article in Oral Tradition and Book Culture, (eds Pertti Anttonen, Cecilia af Forselles & Kirsti Salmi-Niklander), Studia Fennica Folkloristica 24, 2018.