The typewriter century : a cultural history of writing practices /

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"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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lyons, Martyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Series:Studies in book and print culture.
Subjects:
Typewriters > History.
Typewriters > Social aspects.
Typewriting > History.
Machines à écrire > Histoire.
Machines à écrire > Aspect social.
Dactylographie > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Typewriters
Typewriting
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.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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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