Dying to know [electronic resource] : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England / George Levine.
By: Levine, George Lewis.
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BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002Description: xi, 326 p.Subject(s): Descartes, Ren�e, 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 -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 828/.80809356 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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