Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.

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Yes, you can access Fictions of Knowledge by Y. Batsaki, S. Mukherji, J. Schramm, Y. Batsaki,S. Mukherji,J. Schramm in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literatura & Literatura general. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230354616

Topic

Literatura

Subtopic

Literatura general

Cover
Fictions of Knowledge
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Providence, Experience and Doubt in Medieval England
Law, Probability and Character in Shakespeare
Trying, Knowing and Believing
The Anxiety of Variety
Novel Knowledge
Lost in the Castle of Scepticism
From Alchemy to Experiment: The Political Economy of Experience in William Godwin’s St Leon
Towards a Poetics of (Wrongful) Accusation
Afterword
Bibliography
Index