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

✍ Scribed by Emily A. Bernhard Jackson (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction Only Fuff-Fuff and Passades: What It Means to Know Byronically....Pages 1-12
Philosophies, Skepticism, and Morals: a Background in Enlightenment....Pages 13-31
Traveling on Shaky Ground: Childe Harold I and II and the Beginning of Byronic Knowing....Pages 32-56
Worse than Faithless: Plenitude and the Loss of Knowledge in The Giaour....Pages 57-80
Talking Turkey: Unmasking Knowledge in the Last of the Eastern Tales....Pages 81-102
Traveling on Stormy Seas: Childe Harold III and the Difficulties of Development....Pages 103-130
Knowing on Demand: Staging Knowledge-Claims in Manfred’s Mental Theatre....Pages 131-155
‘A lively reader’s fancy does the rest’: Don Juan and the Certainty of Doubt....Pages 156-180
Reckoning Up....Pages 181-185
Back Matter....Pages 186-229

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics; Epistemology; Nineteenth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory

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