Abstract
Using a draft essay by John Clare as its lodestar, this brief examination demonstrates how the decade’s rage for mapping, measurements and facts created a countervailing discourse of doubt. Literary writers self-consciously struggled to position themselves in relation to a culture in which novel forms of knowledge posited radical new certainties that seemed to undermine previously stable positions. This triggered in observers new forms of fear, wonder, bafflement and self-fashioning.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Remediating the 1820s |
Editors | Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster |
Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Chapter | 8 |
Pages | 213–217 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474493291 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781474493277 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 18 Nov 2022 |
Keywords
- John Clare
- doubt
- self-consciousness
- phemerality