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Title:

Fictions of knowledge : fact, evidence, doubt / edited by Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji and Jan-Melissa Schramm.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

247 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.
Skepticism in literature.
Experience in literature.
Literature and society--England--History.
Knowledge, Sociology of--History.

Other Authors:

Batsaki, Yota, 1974-
Mukherji, Subha.
Schramm, Jan-Melissa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0230277888 (alk. paper)
9780230277885 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748328757

LCCN:

2011040363

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)