Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines : Representing Technology in the Edison Era

Lisa Gitelman

ISBN 10: 0804738726 / ISBN 13: 9780804738729

Verlag: Stanford University Press Jan 2000, 2000

Beschreibung

Neuware - 'A signal contribution to the exploding historiography of the phonograph.'--Isis'The range of Gitelman's evidence is impressive: deep research in the Edison archives, labels, patent documents, and literary sources. Historians will gain the most from the early chapters about the prehistory of phonography and the ways Americans perceived Edison's phonograph.'--The Historian.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780804738729

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines : Representing Technology in the Edison Era
• Verlag: Stanford University Press Jan 2000
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0804738726
• ISBN-13: 9780804738729
• Bindung: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This is a study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the 19th 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lisa Gitelman is Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies at the Catholic University of America.