The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830 - Couverture rigide

Siskin, Clifford

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801856965 ISBN 13 : 9780801856969

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Synopsis

As today's new technologies challenge the reign of writing, the author of this study puts current concerns about such a change into the context of history. In the 18th and 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? Siskin argues that 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 labour were the work of writing, as was the engendering, at their intersection, of the discipline which took writing itself as its professional work - literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Clifford Siskin is professor of English and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801856965
• ISBN 13: 9780801856969
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
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• Personne responsable: non disponible