Paul Keen

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).

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). See less