TY  - BOOK
AU  - George Lewis Levine
AU  - George Lewis Levine
TI  - Dying to know : : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England
SN  - 9780226475363
U1  - 828.8080 LEV 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  -  : University of Chicago Press
KW  - Literature
KW  - ;English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
N1  - 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
ER  -