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Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose

Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 55

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521810981
ISBN13: 9780521810982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 27 2003
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This ambitious study sheds new light on the way the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth-century to respond to empirical scepticism had produced a culture of indifferentism. Tim Milnes explores the tension between this epistemic indifference and a perpetual compulsion to know. The 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.

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