Value and the Humanities: The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance

Chapter One: IntroductionPart I: The State of the DebateCritical University StudiesThe Public Value of the HumanitiesSocial Impact StudiesNew ContributionsPart II: The Relationship with the Past: From Liberal to Neoliberal EducationDescribing 2008-18 as the Present Moment in Higher EducationEconomic Value as a Monoculture under NeoliberalismThe Dominance of Economic Value within Higher EducationArguing Against Crisis in the HumanitiesPart III: From Liberal to Neoliberal EducationArticulating the Values of a Liberal EducationSpeaking of Liberal Values in the Neoliberal UniversityPart IV: Chapter Synopses
Chapter Two: A History of Payment by Results: Lowe's Code (1862) and the Browne Report (2010)IntroductionPart I: Lowe's CodeThe Newcastle CommissionRobert Lowe and Economic MotivationsCritical Responses to Payment by ResultsPart II: The Browne ReportContextualising the Browne Report: The Move towards Minimal Government Involvement in Higher EducationNational Economic MotivationsNational Gains: The Debate Concerning Tangible KnowledgeThe Rise of Individualism and the Student as ConsumerConclusion
Chapter Three: Controversy and Conversation:  The Relationship Between the Humanities and the SciencesIntroductionPart I: Policy and the Relationship between the DisciplinesPresent Policy PreferencesA Brief History of an Age-Old ArgumentPart II: The "Two Cultures Controversy", Then and NowThe Birth of a ControversyThe Form of the Debate The Two Cultures TodayPart III: A Liberal Valuation: Arnold and Huxley's ExchangeThe Start of a Conversation "Darwin's Bulldog" and "Our Chief Apostle of Culture"Articulating the Value of a Liberal EducationConclusion
Chapter Four: The Relationship between Academic Fiction and Academic LifeIntroductionPart I: Using Academic Fiction as a Discursive ToolPart II: Defining Academic FictionUnderstanding the Appeal of Academic Fiction Situation and Settings for the Academic NovelSubject Matter and Style in Academic FictionPart III: Investigation One: The Qualities of a Liberal EducationThe Qualities of an Education in Tom Brown at OxfordThe Secret History: A Classical Education Out of TimeAssessing the Value of the Humanities in Novels that Engage with Educational Principles from the PastPart IV: Investigation Two: Representing the Processes of Humanities Research Middlemarch and the Pursuit of the Key to All Mythologies Possession and the Processes of Scholarship Assessing the Value of the Humanities in Novels that Explore the Process of Writing and ResearchPart V: Investigation Three: Pressures of Economics in Education Jude the Obscure and Barriers to Education Frank Parkin's The Mind and Body Shop: Everything for Sale The Future of a Liberal Education in Zadie Smith's On BeautyConclusion
Chapter Five: Impact and the Humanities: The Rise of Accountability in Public Cultural LifeIntroductionPart I: Debates in Public Access, Use, and Accountability in the Victorian Museum Defining Foucauldian Governmentality National Interests in the Public Museum: Governance and Powers of Display The British Museum: The Rise of Debates in Public Accountability and Access The Rise of Accountability: Quantification as Justification in the Victorian MuseumConclusions, Regarding the Victorian Public MuseumPart II: Public Expenditure and Public Values"There is No Alternative": The Rise of Economic Models of Valuation in the Cultural Sector New Public Management Responses from the Cultural Sector The Arts and the Economy Embroiled: The Rise of the Creative IndustriesPart III: REF-lections for the Academic Humanities Reinforcing National Interests within the Impact Agenda The Focus on Outputs and Impacts Misrepresents the Value of the Humanities "The System Does Not Speak for Me" The Humanities and the Creative IndustriesPart IV: A Response from the HumanitiesConclusion
Chapter Six: ConclusionPart I: Reflections on Questionsof Value Part II: Future Directions for ResearchPart III: Voices of the Humanities, and a Call to ArmsPart IV: The Need for the Humanities in an Age of Populism