The aesthetic of empiricism : self, knowledge and reality in mid-Victorian prose
Focusing on the mid-nineteenth century, this thesis argues that far from initiating or undergirding a crude representationalism, empiricism predicated its search for knowledge on a profound instability, one embodied within the textual language through which it sought its articulation. That instabili...
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University of Edinburgh
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651342 |