Useful Knowledge by Alan Rauch PAPERBACK 9780822326687

Useful Knowledge\nby Alan Rauch\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alan Rauch\nTitle: Useful Knowledge\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: MD - Duke University Press\nPublication year: 2001\nISBN-13: 9780822326687\nISBN-10: 082232668X\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nPresents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within 19th-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin's \""Origin of Species\"". This book touches on social and cultural anxieties that offer both historical and contemporary insights.\n\nPresents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within 19th-century li.