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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lyons, Martyn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Typewriting
Typewriters
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Dactylographie > Histoire.
Machines à ecrire > Aspect social.
Machines à ecrire > Histoire.
Typewriting > History.
Typewriters > Social aspects.
Typewriters > History.
History
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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