Victorian empiricism : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot / Peter Garratt.
Dr. Garratt argues that by the 1860s empiricism was both a dominant cultural language and a reflexive epistemic theory, producing a model of contingent selfhood conceived simultaneously as the route towards knowledge and its obstacle. For this reason, Victorian empiricism predicated its search for k...
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