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- catalog abstract ""This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. At the book's heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they failed (like Thomas Edison's "electric pen") or succeeded (like typewriters), inscriptive technologies of the late nineteenth century were local, often competitive embodiments of the way people experienced writing and reading. Such a perspective cuts through the determinism of recent accounts while simultaneously arguing for an interdisciplinary method for considering texts and textual production. ... The phonograph and the typewriter may be things of the past, but this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media will take in the new century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11391094.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. At the book's heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they failed (like Thomas Edison's "electric pen") or succeeded (like typewriters), inscriptive technologies of the late nineteenth century were local, often competitive embodiments of the way people experienced writing and reading. Such a perspective cuts through the determinism of recent accounts while simultaneously arguing for an interdisciplinary method for considering texts and textual production. ... The phonograph and the typewriter may be things of the past, but this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media will take in the new century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : writing things down, storing them up -- Making history, spelling things out -- Imagining language machines -- Patent instrument and reading machine -- Paperwork and performance -- Automatic writing -- Coda : the (hyper) textuality of everyday life.".
- catalog extent "viii, 282 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804732701 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0804738726 (pa. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "302.2/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Communication and technology United States History.".
- catalog subject "Literacy Technological innovations United States History.".
- catalog subject "P96.T422 U6343 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : writing things down, storing them up -- Making history, spelling things out -- Imagining language machines -- Patent instrument and reading machine -- Paperwork and performance -- Automatic writing -- Coda : the (hyper) textuality of everyday life.".
- catalog title "Scripts, grooves, and writing machines : representing technology in the Edison era / Lisa Gitelman.".
- catalog type "text".