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

✍ Scribed by Emily A. Bernhard Jackson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Note on Texts......Page 12
Introduction
Only Fuff-Fuff and Passades:
What It Means to Know
Byronically......Page 14
1 Philosophies, Skepticism, and
Morals: a Background in
Enlightenment......Page 26
2 Traveling on Shaky Ground:
Childe Harold I and II and the
Beginning of Byronic Knowing......Page 45
3 Worse than Faithless: Plenitude
and the Loss of Knowledge in
The Giaour......Page 70
4 Talking Turkey: Unmasking
Knowledge in the Last of the
Eastern Tales......Page 94
5 Traveling on Stormy Seas:
Childe Harold III and the
Difficulties of Development......Page 116
6 Knowing on Demand: Staging
Knowledge-Claims in Manfred’s
Mental Theatre......Page 144
7 ‘A lively reader’s fancy does the
rest’: Don Juan and the Certainty
of Doubt......Page 169
Reckoning Up......Page 194
Notes......Page 199
References......Page 225
Index......Page 239