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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.

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"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
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Scripts Grooves and Writing Machines Representing

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 January 2000
      ISBN-13 9780804738729
      978-0804738729
      ISBN-10 0804738726
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      Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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
      "A signal contribution to the exploding historiography of the phonograph." -- Isis

      Table of Contents
      Contents 1 2 3 4 5

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