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

by Clifford Siskin

This book, like Siskin's first book, will be talked about, quoted, and used, both inside and outside the discipline. Its thesis is, by itself, worth the price of admission.--Kurt Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801862841
• ISBN13: 9780801862847
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"