The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge (eBook, PDF)

Certain in Uncertainty

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 229
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230290563
• Artikelnr.: 45963133

Autorenporträt

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 Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Age of Romanticism.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'As a record of philosophical work done in the course of Byron's poetic career Bernhard Jackson's book succeeds in reaffirming the exuberance of the poet's misgivings.' - TLS

'Bernard Jackson provides a new approach to understanding Bryon's philosophical development - one that is sympathetic to the poet's oft-maligned intellectual powers...contributes to larger conversations about the function of poetry and reading in the nineteenth century and provides readers with material for future scholarly investigations of the poet's skepticism.' - Review 19