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Rebellious Writing

Contesting Marginalisation in Edwardian Britain

Av Lauren Alex O’Hagan

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The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons in which everyone knew their place and nobody questioned the order of things. The reality, however, was quite different. The years between 1901 and 1914 were a highly turbulent period of intense social conflict marked by a heightened awareness of class consciousness, inequality and poverty. The increasing mobilisation of the lower classes and women was often countered with violent means, while anybody considered to be the «other» – immigrants, lunatics, the poor, homosexuals – became the target of widespread discrimination. For many of these groups, the only way to fight back was through writing, which they used to voice resistance and contest traditional power structures.This volume aims to draw attention to the importance of «ordinary writing» – that is, «writing that is typically unseen or ignored and is primarily defined by its status as discardable» – as a form of rebellion for marginalised Edwardians. Using a multidisciplinary perspective to explore a range of material artefacts, from postcards and diary entries to pamphlets and book inscriptions, it aims to unearth voices that have been silent throughout history, transmitting new narratives on such important issues as suffragism, Irish nationalism, the working-class movement and pauper insanity.
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Lauren Alex O’Hagan is a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University who specialises in deviant inscriptive practices of the early twentieth century, particularly those concerning the working classes. She recently completed a PhD in Language and Communication with a thesis titled «Class, Culture and Conflict in the Edwardian Book Inscription: A Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach». She has published extensively on literacy and scribal practices, consumption culture and social class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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«This bold, brave and genuinely interdisciplinary collection of essays reminds us that socialdisobedience was not only rife during the Edwardian period, but that it was endlessly, and powerfully,creative. Rebellious writing could be found in some extraordinary places. The value of theseso-called ‹ordinary› texts cannot be underestimated, as these essays prove again and again.» (Dr Samuel Shaw, Founder of the Edwardian Culture Network andTeaching Fellow in Nineteenth-Century Art, Leicester University)«The book offers a unique and innovative approach to the everyday literacies of marginalisedEdwardians and immerses the reader into their acts of rebellious writing. This comprehensiveand compelling collection of work promises to be a key resource for literacy scholars with aninterest in identity, conflict and social class and it will serve as an intoxicant for those who remaina rebel at heart.» (Dr Tereza Spilioti, Reader in Language and Communication, Cardiff University)

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