Keyword: Doubt

David Stewart*

*Corresponding author for this work

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRemediating the 1820s
EditorsJon Mee, Matthew Sangster
Place of PublicationEdinburgh
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
Chapter8
Pages213–217
Number of pages5
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781474493291
ISBN (Print)9781474493277
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • John Clare
  • doubt
  • self-consciousness
  • phemerality

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