Fictions of Knowledge [electronic resource] : Fact, Evidence, Doubt /
Batsaki, Y.editor.
Mukherji, S.editor.
Schramm, J.editor.
Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Beyond reasonable doubt: the evolution of a concept / Barbara Shapiro -- Providence, experience and doubt in medieval England / Carl Watkins -- Law, probability and character in Shakespeare / Lorna Hutson -- Trying, knowing and believing: epistemic plots and the poetics of doubt / Subha Mukherji -- The anxiety of variety: knowledge and experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon / Kathryn Murphy -- Novel knowledge: judgment, experience, experiment / John Bender -- Lost in the castle of scepticism: sceptical philosophy as gothic romance / Sarah Kareem -- From alchemy to experiment: the political economy of experience in William Godwin's St Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century / Yota Batsaki -- Towards a poetics of (wrongful) accusation: innocence and working-class voice in mid-Victorian fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Afterword / Michael Wood.
Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Epistemology.
Cultural Theory.