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Book SynopsisThese new divisions of knowledge and of labor were the work of writing, as was the engendering, at their intersection, of the discipline that took writing itself as its professional work-Literature.
Trade ReviewOnce again, Siskin has pulled it off brilliantly. I do not know how complicated the historicist's task will be ten years from now, but I am sure that Siskin will be taking it on, breaking new ground well ahead of the rest of us. Eighteenth-Century Fiction Despite the ferociously abstract character of these subjects, Siskin is always able to exemplify and particularize. -- James Thompson Novel Siskin's already influential book goes even further, raising serious questions about the methodologies and founding principles of print-culture research. -- Nicholas Hudson Eighteenth-Century Life 2002 What is most striking about this book is its sense of the intricacy and mobility of the connections between these changing categories of knowing and working-disciplinarity, professionalism, and Literature. -- Paul Keen Epilogue 2003 Siskin successfully relocates literature within a broader history of culture, writing, social change, economics, sociology, and communication theory. Choice
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
The Argument: Writing As A New Technology
Part I: Disciplinarity: The Political Economy of Knowledge
Chapter 1. Writing Havoc
Chapter 2. Engendering Disciplinarity
Chapter 3. Scottish Philosophy And English Literature
Part II: Professionalism: The Poetics of Labor
Chapter 4. The Georgic At Work
Chapter 5. The Lyricization of Labor
Part III: Novelism: Literature In the History Of Writing
Chapter 6. Periodicals, Authorship, And The Romantic Rise Of The Novel
Chapter 7. The Novel, The Nation, And The Naturalization Of Writing
Part IV: Gender: The Great Forgetting
Chapter 8. What We Remember: The Case Of Austen
Chapter 9. How We Forgot: Reproduction And Reverse Vicariousness
Notes
Index
