A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Keen, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030326624 ISBN-13: 9783030326623 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - History | Social History |
Dewey: 306.09 |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.50 lbs) 171 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |