The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge : Certain in Uncertainty - Emily A. Bernhard Jackson

The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge

Certain in Uncertainty

By: Emily A. Bernhard Jackson

Hardcover | 1 December 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy of knowledge. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance-reader-centred scepticism-has wide-ranging practical implications. The book examines Childe Harold I, II and III, The Giaour, Lara, Manfred and Don Juan, considering each as a step in Byron's evolving philosophy.

Showing how Byron draws upon the ideas and works of John Locke, David Hume, and George Berkeley, as well as Scottish Enlightenment philosophers such as William Drummond and Thomas Reid, The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge frames a Byron who is influenced by the intellectual advances of his period but who moves beyond them, a thinker in his own right.
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'As a record of philosophical work done in the course of Byron's poetic career Bernhard Jackson's book succeeds in reaffirming the exuberance of the poet's misgivings.' - TLS

'Bernard Jackson provides a new approach to understanding Bryon's philosophical development - one that is sympathetic to the poet's oft-maligned intellectual powers...contributes to larger conversations about the function of poetry and reading in the nineteenth century and provides readers with material for future scholarly investigations of the poet's skepticism.' - Review 19

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