Books by Paul (Carleton University Keen

This book explores the ways that authors responded to a sense of unprecedented cultural and technological change. Together, their interventions helped to shape the values and tensions that informed Britain's sense of its own extraordinary modernity. Their insights have never been more pertinent.

An original study of debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature and the new class of readers produced by the revolution in information and literacy in eighteenth-century England. Topics debated include the status of the author, working-class activists and radical women authors.