Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author and editor of several books including The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, 1999), Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750–1800 (Cambridge, 2012), and The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800–1850 (forthcoming).
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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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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