The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge : Certain in Uncertainty

Bernhard Jackson, Emily A.

Palgrave Macmillan（2010/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 229 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781349311965
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

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.

Contents

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