Fictions of Knowledge

1. Introduction
Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm

2. Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Evolution of a Concept
Barbara J. Shapiro

3. Providence, Experience and Doubt in Medieval England
Carl Watkins

4. Law, Probability and Character in Shakespeare
Lorna Hutson

5. Trying, Knowing and Believing: Epistemic Plots and the Poetics of Doubt
Subha Mukherji

6. The Anxiety of Variety: Knowledge and Experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon
Kathryn Murphy

7. Novel Knowledge: Judgement, Experience, Experiment
John Bender

8. Lost in the Castle of Scepticism: Sceptical Philosophy as Gothic Romance
Sarah Tindal Kareem

9. From Alchemy to Experiment: The Political Economy of Experience in William Godwin’s St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Yota Batsaki

10. Towards a Poetics of (Wrongful) Accusation: Innocence and Working-Class Voice in Mid-Victorian Fiction
Jan-Melissa Schramm

11. Afterword
Michael Wood

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Epistemology, Cultural Theory