Humanities and Everyday Life - The Literary Agenda

Michael Levenson considers how the humanities exist beyond the walls of universities and take place in daily life- in book clubs, public libraries, museums, and historical re-enactments. He poses questions about amateurs versus professionals, what constitutes expertise, and the recent backlash against political elites.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Humanities at Large


• 2: Departments, Disciplines


• 3: Experts and Expertise


• 4: The Humanities in Time


• 5: Places to Think in: Library, Museum, Seminar


• Conclusion

About the author

Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of A Genealogy of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 1984), Modernism and the Fate of Individuality (Cambridge University Press, 1990), The Spectacle of Intimacy (co-authored with K. Chase, Princeton University Press, 2000), and Modernism (Yale University Press, 2011); and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Modernism (2000, 2nd edition 2011). Professor Levenson has published essays in such journals as ELH, Novel, Modernism / Modernity, The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, and Raritan. He has been chair of the English Department at the University of Virginia and is the founding director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures. His teaching has ranged through literary history from the eighteenth century to the present, and more recently toward global cultural studies.

Summary

Michael Levenson considers how the humanities exist beyond the walls of universities and take place in daily life- in book clubs, public libraries, museums, and historical re-enactments. He poses questions about amateurs versus professionals, what constitutes expertise, and the recent backlash against political elites.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Levenson, Michael (William B. Christian Professor Levenson, Michael (William B. Christian Professor of English Levenson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198808299
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880829-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: The Literary Agenda; The Literary Agenda
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Literary studies: general, Adult education, continuous learning