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UNINA9910450551503321 |
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Autore |
Milnes Tim |
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Titolo |
Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose / / Tim Milnes [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
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1-107-13250-9 |
0-521-03595-3 |
1-280-16104-3 |
1-139-14778-1 |
0-511-12017-6 |
0-511-05803-9 |
0-511-33055-3 |
0-511-48440-2 |
0-511-07282-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 55 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Romanticism - Great Britain |
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature |
Apathy in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-271) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Romanticism's knowing ways -- From artistic to epistemic creation: the eighteenth century -- Charm of logic: Wordsworth's prose -- Dry romance: Hazlitt's immanent idealism -- Coleridge and the new foundationalism -- End of knowledge: Coleridge and theosophy -- Conclusion: life without knowledge. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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