TY - BOOK AU - Keen,Paul ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 T2 - Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print SN - 9783030326609 AV - PN760.5-769 U1 - 809.034 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature, Modern—19th century KW - Literature—History and criticism KW - Civilization—History KW - Philosophy KW - Ethnology—Europe KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature KW - Literary History KW - Cultural History KW - History of Philosophy KW - British Culture N1 - Introduction: The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age -- Chapter 1: Interventions -- Chapter 2: Accommodations -- Chapter 3: Institutions -- Chapter 4: The Idea of a University. - Conclusion N2 - 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. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32660-9 ER -