Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England by George Lewis Levine

Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England

George Lewis Levine

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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 Vict...

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