The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons

The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Martyn Lyons

271 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it.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

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