TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levine,George Lewis
TI  - Dying to know: scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England 
SN  - 9780226475387 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR788.S33 L48 2002eb
U1  - 828/.80809356 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Descartes, René,
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
KW  - Science in literature
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Wetenschap
KW  - gtt
KW  - Kennistheorie
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - Engels
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-315) and index; The narrative of scientific epistemology -- Dying to know Descartes -- Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator -- Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self -- My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography -- The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend -- Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology -- The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed -- Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science -- The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater
N2  - "Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sense that they could imagine achieving pure knowledge only in a condition where the body ceases to make its claims: to achieve enlightenment, virtue, and salvation, one must die."--Jacket
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