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The Typewriter Century

A Cultural History of Writing Practices

By (author) Martyn Lyons
Categories: General and world history, History, History and Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Time period qualifiers
Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Hardcover : 9781487508241, 276 pages, February 2021
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Table 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 

Description

With quirky charm, Lyons 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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. The Typewriter Century provides a cultural history of the typewriter, outlining the ways in which it can be considered an agent of change and demonstrating how it influenced all writers, canonical and otherwise.