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Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology

This monograph studies the concept of 'ignorance' in philosophy and literary theory, drawing on, and interrogating, approaches to this complex idea from epistemology and philosophical scepticism, theories of the sublime, psychoanalysis, discourses of melancholia, and deconstruction. The book's wide theoretical range is matched by the literary texts it addresses, including Wordsworth’s poetry, Keats’s letters and poems, and works by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry James, Philip Roth, and Seamus Heaney. The strength of the book lies in its combination of rigorous and highly sophisticated theoretical work with intensive, illuminating discussions of specific texts.