{"product_id":"the-public-value-of-the-humanities-paperback","title":"The Public Value of the Humanities - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Bate\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of design? Does such research deliver 'value for money' and 'public benefit'? Such questions have become especially pertinent in the UK in recent years, in the context of the drive by government to instrumentalize research across the disciplines and the prominence of discussions about 'economic impact' and 'knowledge transfer'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book a group of distinguished humanities researchers, all working in Britain, but publishing research of international importance, reflect on the public value of their discipline, using particular research projects as case-studies. Their essays are passionate, sometimes polemical, often witty and consistently thought-provoking, covering a range of humanities disciplines from theology to architecture and from media studies to anthropology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His books include \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); \u003ci\u003eJohn Clare: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) - winner of the 2004 Hawthornden Prize and the 2005 James Tait Black Memorial prize for biography; \u003ci\u003eThe Genius of Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (1997); and \u003ci\u003eSoul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). He was the editor of the Arden edition of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus \u003c\/i\u003e(1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42107912224903,"sku":"9781849660624","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/eb60c048e3a322de201e79d6c3dff5f5.webp?v=1732460810","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-public-value-of-the-humanities-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}