Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 261 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781487537821
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9781487537838
Series Statement:
Studies in book and print culture
Content:
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
Content:
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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487508241
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487525736
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lyons, Martyn, 1946 - The typewriter century Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2021 ISBN 9781487525736
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487508241
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Schreibmaschine
DOI:
10.3138/9781487537821
Author information:
Lyons, Martyn 1946-
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