{"product_id":"the-work-of-writing-literature-and-social-change-in-britain-17001830-9780801862847","title":"The Work of Writing Literature and Social Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eThe Argument: Writing As A New Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Disciplinarity: The Political Economy of Knowledge \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Writing Havoc\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Engendering Disciplinarity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Scottish Philosophy And English Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Professionalism: The Poetics of Labor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Georgic At Work\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Lyricization of Labor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Novelism: Literature In the History Of Writing \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Periodicals, Authorship, And The Romantic Rise Of The Novel \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Novel, The Nation, And The Naturalization Of Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Gender: The Great Forgetting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. What We Remember: The Case Of Austen\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. How We Forgot: Reproduction And Reverse Vicariousness\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527612997975,"sku":"9780801862847","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-work-of-writing-literature-and-social-change-in-britain-17001830-9780801862847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}