The typewriter century : a cultural history of writing practices

The typewriter century : a cultural history of writing practices /

"This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Cen...

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Main Author: Lyons, Martyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021
Series:Studies in book and print culture.
Subjects:
Typewriters > History.
Typewriters > Social aspects.
Typewriting > History.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Typewriter as an Agent of Change?
  • The Birth of the Typosphere
  • Modernity and the "Typewriter Girl"
  • The Modernist Typewriter
  • The Distancing Effect: The Hand, the Eye, the Voice
  • The Romantic Typewriter
  • Manuscript and Typescript
  • Georges Simenon: The Man in the Glass Cage
  • Erle Stanley Gardner: The Fiction Factory
  • Domesticating the Typewriter
  • The End of the Typewriter Century and Post-Digital Nostalgia.

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