A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

Keen, Paul

ISBN 10: 3030326624 / ISBN 13: 9783030326623

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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1st ed. 2020 edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030326624
• ISBN 13: 9783030326623
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. 

About the Author

Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University, Canada.