What Literature Knows
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What Literature Knows

Forays into Literary Knowledge Production

  1. 342 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

What Literature Knows

Forays into Literary Knowledge Production

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. What Literature Knows: An Introduction (Antje Kley)
  4. “His ignorance were wise”: Gendered Knowledge in Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594/95) (Kai Merten)
  5. “The pleasing visions I had formed”: Natural Knowledge and Self-Awareness in Jonathan Swift’s Satires (Richard Nate)
  6. Access Denied: English Experiences in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Travel Report of 1782 (Albert Meier)
  7. Fothergill’s Web: Transnational Quaker Networks and the Pennsylvania Medical Library (Marcel Hartwig)
  8. Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), and the Crisis of Knowledge (Anthony John Harding)
  9. Romanticism and Anoetic Knowledge (Justus Conrad Gronau)
  10. Curious to Know: John Clare’s “The Nightingale’s Nest” (1832) (Philipp Erchinger)
  11. Negotiating Authority: Literary and Medical Configurations of Knowledge in 19th-Century America (Maria Kaspirek)
  12. The Fourth Dimension and Impossible Knowledge in Edwardian Speculative Fiction (Cord-Christian Casper)
  13. What Nancy Knew, What Carol Knew: Mass Literature and Knowledge (Aleksandra Boss / Martin Klepper)
  14. Scientific Knowledge and the Display Function of Literature: The White Hotel (1981) and Freud’s Megalomania (2000) (Matthias Bauer)
  15. The Art of Deception: Knowledge Distribution in English Literature (Daniel SchÀbler)
  16. “We are only what we know”: Knowledge in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) (Ann Spangenberg)
  17. Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000) as Multi-Narrative: The Dialogic Relation of Indigenous and Western World Views (Jutta Zimmermann)
  18. “Useless, off-beat information!”: Knowledge and Successiveness in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney (1994) (AndrĂ© Schwarck)
  19. Historiography and the Production of Knowledge: The Mongol Period (Anja Pistor-Hatam)
  20. List of Contributors