Why are Anglophone novels more worthy of attention than Ottoman shadow puppetry or the art of knot-tying? Just what are the humanities for?

Patrick Fessenbecker
Patrick Fessenbecker is an assistant professor in the Program for Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas at Bilkent University and an assistant faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin. His book Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience was published in 2020 from Edinburgh University Press.