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The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons
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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices
- Publication Date
- 2021-02-02
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN
- 9781487525736
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1487525737
ISBN-13
9781487525736
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5067515547
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Publication Name
Typewriter Century : a Cultural History of Writing Practices
Language
English
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Series
Studies in Book and Print Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-362442
Reviews
" The Typewriter Century convincingly brings together currently segregated strands of research on print technology, modernist style in terms of formalist literary criticism, and authorship informed by the rise of cultural studies. Martyn Lyons has a longstanding reputation in the history of reading and writing practices, and his case studies are supported with meticulous archival research." --Shafquat Towheed, The Open University "One has to admit that the typewriter can be traced in every single country with different sources everywhere. Provoking the reader's mindset, this book is informative, well written, and original. Students in literature, communication studies, media studies, and book studies will appreciate this book a lot - for the typewriter is an anomaly to them." --Lisa Kuitert, University of Amsterdam, "Well written and really entertaining, with numerous interesting individual findings, Martyn Lyons' book provides a useful introduction to a complex field of research." --Kim Christian Priemal, University of Oslo, H-Soz-Kult "This is a useful study of the complex impacts of the typewriter on the practices of different writers in the twentieth century. It contextualizes existing research approaches to this set of questions effectively and offers original insights into the history of the typewriter as a technology and its interactions with the social position of writers and the market for published literary works." --Morag Shiach, Queen Mary University of London, Journal of British Studies "With so many technological changes in our lives, the typewriter has become a clear symbol of the transformation from manual to digital technology. In The Typewriter Century , Martyn Lyons plays homage to this once cherished tool of authors, tracing its history from an eighteenth-century 'writing machine' to the post-digital age. Along the way, he recounts how famous authors felt about their typewriters, and how changes in the typewriter also changed the writing process itself, not always for the better." --Gretchen Webster, Publishing Research Quarterly " The Typewriter Century is clearly the result of extensive research but that does not inhibit the prose, which is very engaging. This book will interest scholars concerned with the means of production, and it will also appeal to general readers who are curious about the history of technology and writing." --Alice Grundy, Australian National University, SHARP News "This book will be of interest to historians of typewriters and office work and a wider audience curious about the writing practices of some of the most legendary authors since the 1880s."--James Inglis, Technology and Culture, "Well written and really entertaining, with numerous interesting individual findings, Martyn Lyons' book provides a useful introduction to a complex field of research." --Kim Christian Priemal, University of Oslo, H-Soz-Kult "This is a useful study of the complex impacts of the typewriter on the practices of different writers in the twentieth century. It contextualizes existing research approaches to this set of questions effectively and offers original insights into the history of the typewriter as a technology and its interactions with the social position of writers and the market for published literary works." --Morag Shiach, Queen Mary University of London, Journal of British Studies "With so many technological changes in our lives, the typewriter has become a clear symbol of the transformation from manual to digital technology. In The Typewriter Century , Martyn Lyons plays homage to this once cherished tool of authors, tracing its history from an eighteenth-century 'writing machine' to the post-digital age. Along the way, he recounts how famous authors felt about their typewriters, and how changes in the typewriter also changed the writing process itself, not always for the better." --Gretchen Webster, Publishing Research Quarterly " The Typewriter Century is clearly the result of extensive research but that does not inhibit the prose, which is very engaging. This book will interest scholars concerned with the means of production, and it will also appeal to general readers who are curious about the history of technology and writing." --Alice Grundy, Australian National University, SHARP News "This book will be of interest to historians of typewriters and office work and a wider audience curious about the writing practices of some of the most legendary authors since the 1880s."--James Inglis, Technology and Culture " The Typewriter Century convincingly brings together currently segregated strands of research on print technology, modernist style in terms of formalist literary criticism, and authorship informed by the rise of cultural studies. Martyn Lyons has a longstanding reputation in the history of reading and writing practices, and his case studies are supported with meticulous archival research." --Shafquat Towheed, The Open University "One has to admit that the typewriter can be traced in every single country with different sources everywhere. Provoking the reader's mindset, this book is informative, well written, and original. Students in literature, communication studies, media studies, and book studies will appreciate this book a lot - for the typewriter is an anomaly to them." --Lisa Kuitert, University of Amsterdam
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
652.3
Table Of Content
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 Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
Z49.A1L96 2021
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- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.