Paul Pickering
Paul Pickering on 'The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860–1920'
Paul Pickering
Sunday, 01 December 2013
‘If in this I have been tedious,’ admitted William Cowper in a letter published in 1750, ‘it may be some excuse, I had not time to make it shorter.’ In The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860–1920, Martyn Lyons has accomplished what Cowper could not. This is a short book but withal it successfully tackles an expansive agenda. It is in no way tedious. Indeed, it is an excellent book – ambitious and thought-provoking – and deserving of an equally large audience within the academy and beyond it.
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Published in
December 2013–January 2014, no. 357