Literary secretaries/secretarial culture
By: edited by Leah Price, Pamela Thurschwell.
Contributors: Price, Leah.; Thurschwell, Pamela, 1966-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Invisible hands / Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell; title: Speech on paper : Charles Dickens, Victorian phonography, and the reform of writing / Ivan Kreilkamp; title: Stenographic masculinity / Leah Price; title: The body types : corporeal documents and body politics circa 1900 / Victoria Olwell; title: Dictation anxiety : the stenographer's stake in Dracula / Jennifer L. Fleissner; title: Secretary to the stars : mediums and the agency of authorship / Bette London; title: The case of the capable fingers : a Della Street mystery / Daniel Karlin; title: Bodies that mattered : technology, embodiment, and secretarial mediation / Douglas A. Brooks.