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Fictions of knowledge : fact, evidence, doubt / edited by Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji and Jan-Melissa Schramm.
Van Pelt Library PR149.S64 F53 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Skepticism in literature.
- Experience in literature.
- Literature and society--England--History.
- Literature and society.
- Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230277885
- 0230277888
- OCLC:
- 748328757
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