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

By Emily A. Bernhard Jackson

Book Overview

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Philosophies, Skepticism, and Morals: The Background in Enlightenment Travelling on Stony Ground: Childe Harold I and II and the Beginning of Byronic Knowing Worse than Faithless: Plenitude and the Loss of Knowledge in The Giaour Talking Turkey: Unmasking Knowledge in the Last of the Eastern Tales Travelling on Stormy Seas: Childe Harold III and the Difficulties of Development Knowing on Demand: Staging Knowledge-Claims in Manfred's 'Mental Theatre' 'A lively reader's fancy does the rest': Don Juan and the Certainty of Doubt Reckoning Up Notes Works Cited Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349311960
• ISBN13: 9781349311965
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"