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Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose // Tim Milnes.
remainder title:	Knowledge & Indifference in English Romantic Prose
Author:	Milnes, Tim,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English prose literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484407
ISBN:	9780511484407 (ebook)

Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose /
Milnes, Tim,

Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose /Knowledge & Indifference in English Romantic ProseTim Milnes. - 1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;55. - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;104..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Romanticism's knowing ways --

This 2003 study sheds light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge, particularly as they inherited them from the philosopher David Hume. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth century to answer empirical scepticism had produced a culture of 'indifferentism'. Tim Milnes explores the way in which Romantic writers extended this epistemic indifference through their resistance to argumentation, and finds that it exists in a perpetual state of tension with a compulsion to know. This tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in works such as Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Hazlitt's Essay on the Principles of Human Action and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy.

ISBN: 9780511484407 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

578557
English prose literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR778.R65 / M55 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 828/.709384

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