Fictions of knowledge
Subtitle: fact, evidence, doubt
By: edited by Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji and Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230277885
Subjects: English literature; Sociology of Knowledge; Literature and society; Experience in literature; History and criticism; Skepticism in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji and Jan-Melissa Schramm; title: Beyond reasonable doubt: the evolution of a concept / Barbara Shapiro; title: Providence, experience and doubt in medieval England / Carl Watkins; title: Law, probability and character in Shakespeare / Lorna Hutson; title: Trying, knowing and believing: epistemic plots and the poetics of doubt / Subha Mukherji; title: The anxiety of variety: knowledge and experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon / Kathryn Murphy; title: Novel knowledge: judgment, experience, experiment / John Bender; title: Lost in the castle of scepticism: sceptical philosophy as gothic romance / Sarah Kareem; title: From alchemy to experiment: the political economy of experience in William Godwin's St Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century / Yota Batsaki; title: Towards a poetics of (wrongful) accusation: innocence and working-class voice in mid-Victorian fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm; title: Afterword / Michael Wood.