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Rara vez nos detenemos a pensar en las implicaciones que ofrece el hecho de desarrollar nuestra vida en un mundo letrado. Nuestra relación fácil y cotidiana con lo escrito nos parece natural. Sin embargo, leer y escribir son construcciones sociales, culturales y, por tanto, históricas, resultado de un largo proceso que se ha desarrollado a partir de unas necesidades comunicativas específicas. Este trabajo indaga en el conocimiento de las prácticas populares de la cultura escrita en el siglo XIX, momento en el que el uso de la escritura se configuró como una necesidad social, para de...

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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...