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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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