Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-161) and index.
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.
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