Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements IX
Part 1
1
“Nothing Affirms and Therefore Never Lieth”: Cognitive and Non-cognitive Accounts of Imaginative Literature 3
2
“The Birthplace of Truth”: Collingwood’s Speculum Mentis 38
Part 2
3
The Printed Medium: Wordsworth and Books 53
4
Stoicism and Christianity: Byron’s Don Juan 74
5
Evangelicalism and Evolution: James Montgomery’s Pelican Island 96
6
Tragedy and Evolution: Hardy’s The Woodlanders 117
7
Humanism and After: Ibsen’s Little Eyolf 137
8
Politics and Art: James Kelman’s Not Not While the Giro 158
9
From the Other Shore: Bronislaw Malinowski’s A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term 181
Conclusion 201
Bibliography 211
Index 221