The work of writing : literature and social change in Britain, 1700-1830

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The work of writing : literature and social change in Britain, 1700-1830

Clifford Siskin

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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As today's new technologies challenge the reign of writing, Clifford Siskin puts our current concerns about such change into history. In the 18th and early 19th centuries in Britain, he argues, the "new" technology was writing itself. How did its proliferation-in print and through silent reading-coalesce into the dominant forms of literary modernity, and with what consequences? What changed, strikingly and fundamentally, were ways of knowing and of working. Admonitions against young women reading novels were not merely matters of Augustan conservatism but signals of those shifts: they warned against the capacity of the technology to change those who used it. Despite such caution, Britain saw, between 1700 and 1830, the advent of both modern disciplinarity and modern professionalism. These 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.

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Acknowledgements 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

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