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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Literary secretaries/secretarial culture. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2005 (OCoLC)607576089 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leah Price; Pamela Thurschwell |
ISBN: | 0754638049 9780754638049 |
OCLC Number: | 55037936 |
Description: | 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Invisible hands / Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell -- Speech on paper : Charles Dickens, Victorian phonography, and the reform of writing / Ivan Kreilkamp -- Stenographic masculinity / Leah Price -- The body types : corporeal documents and body politics circa 1900 / Victoria Olwell -- Dictation anxiety : the stenographer's stake in Dracula / Jennifer L. Fleissner -- Secretary to the stars : mediums and the agency of authorship / Bette London -- The case of the capable fingers : a Della Street mystery / Daniel Karlin -- Bodies that mattered : technology, embodiment, and secretarial mediation / Douglas A. Brooks. |
Responsibility: | edited by Leah Price, Pamela Thurschwell. |
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'... the articles provide a much needed corrective to the critical tendency to represent the new systems for the sending, storing, and retrieving of data as the driving force in the transition from an industrial to knowledge economy... The results will be of interest not only to those concerned with the representation of laboring bodies in popular literature and culture, but with what it means to live at a time in which information is not so much a means of understanding the world as it is a kind of universal currency, the value of which demands the effacement of the manual labor of which it is a product... valuable collection of essays.' Victorian Studies Read more...


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- English fiction -- History and criticism.
- Secretaries in literature.
- American fiction -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
- Authorship in literature.
- Writing in literature.
- Women in literature.
- American fiction.
- English fiction.
- Women and literature.
- English-speaking countries.
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Secretaresses.
- Machineschrijven.
- Auteurschap.
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Sekretär
- Sekretärin
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