Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture
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Author_Leah Price
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Clerical Workforce
copyright studies
Daniel Karlin
David Copperfield
De Stains
Douglas A. Brooks
embodiment in writing
English Hindi Dictionaries
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Fawn Hall
Female Reproductive Body
gendered labour
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Hannen Swaffer
Holmes Stories
information technology history
Ivan Kreilkamp
Jennifer L. Fleissner
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Middle Class Woman's Life
Middle Class Woman’s Life
Northcliffe's Death
Northcliffe’s Death
office history
Owen's Career
Owen’s Career
Parchment Codex
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Secretarial Mediation
secretarial roles in modern literature
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- ISBN 9781138378827
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism. Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture brings together secretaries' role in the production (and, more surprisingly, consumption) of modern culture with interpretations of their function in literature and film from Chaucer to Heidegger, by way of Dickens, Dracula, and Erle Stanley Gardner. These essays probe the relation of office practice to literary theory, asking what changes when literary texts represent, address, or acknowledge the human copyist or the mechanical writing machine. Topics range from copyright law to voice recognition software, from New Women to haunted typewriters and from the history of technology to the future of information management. Together, the essays will provide literary critics with a new angle on current debates about gender, labour, and the material text, as well as a window into the prehistory of our information age.
Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel and contributes regularly to The London Review of Books; she is working on two books, Novel Media and The Stenographic Imagination. Pamela Thurschwell is Lecturer in English at University College London. She is the author of Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920 and Sigmund Freud, and co-editor of The Victorian Supernatural.
