The Typewriter Century - A Cultural History of Writing Practices

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.

List of 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
Bibliography
Index 

About the author

Martyn Lyons is an emeritus professor of History & European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martyn Lyons
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781487525736
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2573-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book