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  • Chapter 5 - The Typewriter

  • from Part I - Origins
  • Edited by Adam Hammond, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Technology and Literature
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 107-124

  • Summary

    This chapter shifts focus from large-scale changes in the manufacture and distribution of literature to the smaller-scale manner in which a mechanical device, the typewriter, changed how literary texts were composed. Spanning the period 1860–1980 – from the invention of the typewriter to its obsolescence – this chapter investigates how the typewriter affected who wrote, what they wrote, and how they wrote it. Wershler makes the case for the typewriter as an “assemblage”: a series of technologies, techniques, and discourses that work together to shape the expressive pathways in which humans express and constitute their subjectivities.