Chapter 1: Interventions
This chapter begins to map out the way that early nineteenth-century critics engaged with these issues by framing them in terms of Thomas Macaulay’s damning response in the Edinburgh Review to Robert Southey’s Colloquies on Society (1830)—a review that fo
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A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age Imagining What We Know, 1800–1850 Paul Keen
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Paul Keen
A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age Imagining What We Know, 1800–1850
Paul Keen Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada
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