Realism, ethics and secularism : essays on Victorian literature and science

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

Author/creator	Levine, George, 1931-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description	ix, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	English literature--19th century --History and criticism. Literature and science--Great Britain --History --19th century. Ethics--Great Britain --History --19th century. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Science in literature. Realism in literature. Secularism in literature. Great Britain--Intellectual life --19th century.

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 note	Includes index.
LCCN	2008018926
ISBN	9780521885263 (hardback)
ISBN	0521885264 (hardback)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR 468.S34 L48 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold