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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Book and Print Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 13 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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