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

George Levine is one of the world's leading scholars of Victorian literature and culture. This collection of his essays develops the key themes of his work: the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature, culture and science and the relation of knowledge and truth to ethics. The essa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levine, George, 1931-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
1800-1899
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.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Morale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Théorie de la connaissance dans la littérature.
Sciences dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Ethics.
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • George Eliot's hypothesis of reality
  • 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
  • Realism
  • Dickens, secularism, and agency
  • The heartbeat of the squirrel
  • Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.

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