The Typewriter Century A Cultural History of Writing Practices
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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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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| Abstract | 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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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. |
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| AbstractList | 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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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. As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices. 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. |
| Author | Lyons, Martyn |
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| Snippet | This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the... As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices. |
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Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
Half Title Page
Contents
List of 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 Reluctant Professionalism: Richmal Crompton and Agatha Christie -- Newspapermen Don't Cry: Barbara Taylor Bradford -- Surviving the Salt Mines -- 11 The End of the Typewriter Century and Post-Digital Nostalgia -- "Old Media Never Die" -- The Typewriter's Electric Swansong -- The Computer's Dry Embrace -- Post-Digital Nostalgia -- The History of Things -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Typewriter as an Agent of Change? -- Writing Practices and Technological Change -- Friedrich Kittler and the Historians -- The Typewriter Century -- The New World of the Pulp Fiction Writer -- The Office and the Writer -- The Plan -- 2 The Birth of the Typosphere -- Introduction -- Prehistory -- Sholes and Others -- Conquering a Reluctant Market -- Speed Typing -- Stenography -- Keyboard Wars -- 3 Modernity and the "Typewriter Girl" -- The Empire of the Typewriter -- The New Bureaucratic Era -- The "Typewriter Girl" -- Speed, Impersonality, Instinct -- 4 The Modernist Typewriter -- Keys to Modernity -- Guns and Pianos -- Futurism -- Modernist Poetry -- Ernest Hemingway -- 5 The Distancing Effect: The Hand, the Eye, the Voice -- "I, the Undersigned" -- A New Objectivity -- Henry James -- The Return of the Voice -- 6 The Romantic Typewriter -- The Romantic Typewriter -- Automatic Writing -- Enid Blyton's "Undermind" -- Kerouac and His Scrolls -- 7 Manuscript and Typescript -- In Search of Lost Manuscripts -- Making Preparations: Agatha Christie's Red Herrings -- Drafting by Hand -- Serial Correction -- The Archaeology of the Text -- 8 Georges Simenon: The Man in the Glass Cage -- Inside the Glass Cage -- Literary Celebrity -- Simenon at Work -- Typescript and Manuscript -- Between Literature and Pulp Fiction -- 9 Erle Stanley Gardner: The Fiction Factory -- The Stigma of the Typewriter -- The Pulp Fiction World in the 1920s and 1930s -- The Self-taught Writer -- Constructing the Fiction Factory -- Quantity and Speed -- "Give Me Cayenne Pepper" -- 10 Domesticating the Typewriter -- Anxieties of Authorship -- Enid Blyton and the Domestication of Typing |
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