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Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is 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. He 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 Elizabeth Bowen to Philip Roth and Seamus Heaney, writers have been fascinated and compelled by the question of ignorance, inclu
English literature --- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays --- Literary essays --- Romantic period. --- agnoiology. --- democracy. --- ethical. --- ignorance. --- literary texts. --- literature. --- narrative force. --- not knowing. --- poetics.
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Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically engaged study Eileen Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing.With few known primary sources to go on the author manages, through her skilful selection of letters, official documents and historical commentary, to piece together some of the jigsaw of Kavanagh's lif
English literature --- Sex role in literature. --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Kavanagh, Julia, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sex role in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Irish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Women authors&delete& --- Kavanagh, Julia --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays --- Literary essays --- Julia Kavanagh. --- biography. --- critical studies. --- economic independence. --- fiction. --- mid-nineteenth century. --- sexual politics. --- travel writing. --- women writers. --- women's writing.
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