Overview
- Offers a rich, productive historical context to ongoing debates about the value/crisis in the humanities
- Paul Keen is one of the foremost historical humanities scholars
- Examines how 19th C critics developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news is that in many ways, this self-reflexive challenge is precisely what the humanities have always done best: highlight the nature and the force of the narratives that have helped to define how we understand our society – its various pasts and its possible futures – and to suggest the larger contexts within which these issues must ultimately be situated.
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Book Title: A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age
Book Subtitle: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850
Authors: Paul Keen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32660-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32659-3Published: 26 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32662-3Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32660-9Published: 25 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 171
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Cultural History, History of Philosophy, British Culture