Work of Writing

Clifford Siskin, author of The Historicity of Romantic Discourse, holds the Bradley Chair of English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

• AcknowledgementsThe Argument: Writing As A New TechnologyPart I: Disciplinarity: The Political Economy of Knowledge Chapter 1. Writing HavocChapter 2. Engendering DisciplinarityChapter 3. Scottish Philosophy And English LiteraturePart II: Professionalism: The Poetics of LaborChapter 4. The Georgic At WorkChapter 5. The Lyricization of LaborPart 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 WritingPart IV: Gender: The Great ForgettingChapter 8. What We Remember: The Case Of AustenChapter 9. How We Forgot: Reproduction And Reverse VicariousnessNotesIndex

Once 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