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The typewriter century : A cultural history of writing practices (2021)

Lyons, Martyn (Author)

University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 9781487508241

Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 261
Language: English

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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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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 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 depersonalized 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. (Publisher)

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Review James Inglis (October 2022) Review of "The typewriter century : A cultural history of writing practices". Technology and Culture (pp. 1216-1217). unapi

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