A defense of the humanities in a utilitarian age : imagining what we know, 1800-1850 /
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Author / Creator: | Keen, Paul, 1963- author. |
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Imprint: | Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. |
Subject: | Humanities -- History -- 19th century. Humanities -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12416973 |
Summary: | 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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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783030326609 3030326608 3030326594 9783030326593 |