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Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England / George Levine.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Levine, George, 1931-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650 > Influence.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Science in literature.
Science > Philosophy.
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650
English prose literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and science.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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