The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge

Certain in Uncertainty
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-31196-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has extensive practical implications.

Zielgruppe

Research

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction  Philosophies, Skepticism, and Morals: The Background in Enlightenment Travelling on Stony Ground: Childe Harold I and II and the Beginning of Byronic Knowing  Worse than Faithless: Plenitude and the Loss of Knowledge in The Giaour  Talking Turkey: Unmasking Knowledge in the Last of the Eastern Tales  Travelling on Stormy Seas: Childe Harold III and the Difficulties of Development  Knowing on Demand: Staging Knowledge-Claims in Manfred's 'Mental Theatre' 'A lively reader's fancy does the rest': Don Juan and the Certainty of Doubt Reckoning Up Notes Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

EMILY A. BERNHARD JACKSON is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Arkansas, USA, and a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK. She has written essays on Byron and on Edmund Spenser, as well as the introduction for the .