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Fictions of Knowledge

Fact, Evidence, Doubt

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  1. Yota Batsaki
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  2. Subha Mukherji
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  3. Jan-Melissa Schramm
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm
    Pages 1-18

  3. Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Evolution of a Concept

    • Barbara J. Shapiro
    Pages 19-39

  4. Providence, Experience and Doubt in Medieval England

    • Carl Watkins
    Pages 40-60

  5. Law, Probability and Character in Shakespeare

    • Lorna Hutson
    Pages 61-83

  6. Trying, Knowing and Believing: Epistemic Plots and the Poetics of Doubt

    • Subha Mukherji
    Pages 84-109

  7. The Anxiety of Variety: Knowledge and Experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon

    • Kathryn Murphy
    Pages 110-130

  8. Novel Knowledge: Judgement, Experience, Experiment

    • John Bender
    Pages 131-151

  9. Lost in the Castle of Scepticism: Sceptical Philosophy as Gothic Romance

    • Sarah Tindal Kareem
    Pages 152-173

  10. From Alchemy to Experiment: The Political Economy of Experience in William Godwin’s St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

    • Yota Batsaki
    Pages 174-192

  11. Towards a Poetics of (Wrongful) Accusation: Innocence and Working-Class Voice in Mid-Victorian Fiction

    • Jan-Melissa Schramm
    Pages 193-212

  12. Afterword

    • Michael Wood
    Pages 213-219

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 220-247
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About this book

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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“All the essays provide a complex but readable text, backed by massive scholarship, meticulously documented in the notes at their end. … the essays in Fictions of Knowledge offer rich and complex investigations of the fascinating world of knowledge in its varied manifestations in literary and non-literary texts, and should be of interest to all who are interested in meaningful connections between the two.” (Tej N. Dhar, The European Legacy, Vol. 20 (1), October, 2015)

About the authors

JOHN BENDER Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford University, USA LORNA HUTSON Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews UK SARAH TINDAL KAREEM Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA KATHRYN MURPHY Fellow and Tutor in English, Oriel College, Oxford, UK BARBARA J. SHAPIRO Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, USA CARL WATKINS Senior Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, UK MICHAEL WOOD Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fictions of Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: Fact, Evidence, Doubt

  • Editors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354616

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27788-5Published: 15 November 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32585-6Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35461-6Published: 15 November 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 247

  • Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, Epistemology, Cultural Theory

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