The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge [electronic resource] : Certain in Uncertainty /
Jackson, Emily A. Bernhard.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Travelling on shaky 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 -- Knowing on demand : constructing knowledge-claims in Manfred's mental theatre -- A lively readers fancy does the rest : Don Juan and the certainty of doubt.
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.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Poetry.
Genetic epistemology.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Poetry and Poetics.
Epistemology.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.