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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levine, George, 1931-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Ethics > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Science in literature.
Realism in literature.
Secularism in literature.
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Table of contents only
Table of 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.