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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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

Recenzijos

"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)

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Winner of 2022 Outstanding Acedemic Title awarded by Choice 2022 (United States). Short-listed for DeLong Book History Prize Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) 2022 (United States).
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction: The Typewriter as an Agent of Change?
3(22)
2 The Birth of the Typosphere
25(24)
3 Modernity and the "Typewriter Girl"
49(18)
4 The Modernist Typewriter
67(19)
5 The Distancing Effect: The Hand, the Eye, the Voice
86(19)
6 The Romantic Typewriter
105(16)
7 Manuscript and Typescript
121(16)
8 Georges Simenon: The Man in the Glass Cage
137(18)
9 Erie Stanley Gardner: The Fiction Factory
155(17)
10 Domesticating the Typewriter
172(19)
11 The End of the Typewriter Century and Post-Digital Nostalgia
191(12)
Notes 203(36)
Bibliography 239(18)
Index 257
Martyn Lyons is an emeritus professor of History & European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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