The development of Byron's philosophy of knowledge
Subtitle: certain in uncertainty
By: by Emily A. Bernhard Jackson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780230231511
Subjects: Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-225) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Travelling on Shaky Ground: Childe Harold I and II and the Beginning of Byronic Knowing; title: Worse than Faithless: Plenitude and the Loss of Knowledge in The Giaour; title: Talking Turkey: Unmasking Knowledge in the Last of the Eastern Tales; title: Knowing on Demand: Constructing Knowledge-Claims in Manfreds Mental Theatre; title: A lively readers fancy does the rest: Don Juan and the Certainty of Doubt; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.