The Typewriter Century : : A Cultural History of Writing Practices / / Martyn Lyons.
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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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 Century f...
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Lyons, Martyn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Typewriter Century : A Cultural History of Writing Practices / Martyn Lyons. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (276 p.) : 13 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Book and Print Culture Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Typewriter as an Agent of Change? -- 2 The Birth of the Typosphere -- 3 Modernity and the “Typewriter Girl” -- 4 The Modernist Typewriter -- 5 The Distancing Effect: The Hand, the Eye, the Voice -- 6 The Romantic Typewriter -- 7 Manuscript and Typescript -- 8 Georges Simenon: The Man in the Glass Cage -- 9 Erle Stanley Gardner: The Fiction Factory -- 10 Domesticating the Typewriter -- 11 The End of the Typewriter Century and Post-Digital Nostalgia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Book and Print Culture restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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 Century focuses on "celebrity writers," including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote prolifically and mechanically, developing routines in which typing, handwriting, and dictation were each allotted important functions. The typewriter de-personalized the text; the office typewriter bureaucratized it. At the same time, some authors found a new and disturbing distance between themselves and their compositions while others believed the typewriter facilitated spontaneous and automatic typing. The Typewriter Century provides a cultural history of the typewriter, outlining the ways in which it can be considered an agent of change as well as demonstrating how it influenced all writers, canonical and otherwise. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Typewriters History. Typewriters Social aspects. Typewriting History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh Agatha Christie. Enid Blyton. Erle Stanley Gardner. Georges Simenon. Henry James. Jack Kerouac. history of technology. history of writing practices. manuscript culture. nostalgia. pulp fiction. typewriter. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Comm 2021 English 9783110754063 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Communication 2021 9783110753950 ZDB-23-SEW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739220 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487537821 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487537821 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487537821/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Typewriter as an Agent of Change? -- 2 The Birth of the Typosphere -- 3 Modernity and the “Typewriter Girl” -- 4 The Modernist Typewriter -- 5 The Distancing Effect: The Hand, the Eye, the Voice -- 6 The Romantic Typewriter -- 7 Manuscript and Typescript -- 8 Georges Simenon: The Man in the Glass Cage -- 9 Erle Stanley Gardner: The Fiction Factory -- 10 Domesticating the Typewriter -- 11 The End of the Typewriter Century and Post-Digital Nostalgia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Book and Print Culture |
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