Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology

by Andrew Bennett

This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing.

From Wordsworth and Keats to George Eliot and Charles Dickens, from Henry James to Joseph Conrad, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097436
• ISBN13: 9780719097430
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"