Realism, ethics and secularism : essays on Victorian literature and science / George Levine.

Contents Part I : the subject broached : otherness, epistemology, and ethics -- George Eliot's hypothesis of reality -- Part II : ethics without God, or, can "is" can become "ought"? -- Is life worth living? -- Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter -- Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith -- In defense of Positivism -- Why science isn't literature : the importance of differences -- Part III : literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness -- Realism -- Dickens, secularism, and agency -- The heartbeat of the squirrel -- Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2008018926
ISBN9780521885263 (hardback)
ISBN0521885264 (hardback)

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