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Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature - The Problems and Pleasures of Doubt (Hardcover)
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Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature - The Problems and Pleasures of Doubt (Hardcover)
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This ambitious account of skepticism's effects on major authors of
England's Golden Age shows how key philosophical problems inspired
literary innovations in poetry and prose. When figures like
Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert of Cherbury, Cavendish,
Marvell and Milton question theories of language, degrees of
knowledge and belief, and dwell on the uncertainties of perception,
they forever change English literature, ushering it into a secular
mode. While tracing a narrative arc from medieval nominalism to
late seventeenth-century taste, the book explores the aesthetic
pleasures and political quandaries induced by skeptical doubt. It
also incorporates modern philosophical views of skepticism: those
of Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, and Hans
Blumenberg, among others. The book thus contributes to
interdisciplinary studies of philosophy and literature as well as
to current debates about skepticism as a secularizing force,
fostering civil liberties and religious freedoms.
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