The typewriter century : a cultural history of writing practices / Martyn Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Martyn, author.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture.

Studies in book and print culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Typewriters--History.

Typewriters.

Typewriters--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4875-3783-2

OCLC:

1182024317