Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England

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Label

Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England

Title remainder

scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England

Statement of responsibility

George Levine

Creator

• Levine, George, 1931-

Subject

• Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Influence
• English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• History
• Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
• Science -- Philosophy
• Science in literature
• Narration (Rhetoric)

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

828/.80809356

Index

index present

LC call number

PR788.S33

LC item number

L48 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography