Realism, ethics and secularism
Subtitle: essays on Victorian literature and science
By: George Levine.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780521885263
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.The subject broached: Otherness, epistemology, and ethics: George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality; title: Part II. Ethics without god, or, can "is" can be "ought": Is life worth living?; Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith; In defense of positivism; How science isn't literature: the importance of differences; title: Part III. Literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness: Victorian realism; Dickens, secularism and agency; The heartbeat of the squirrel; Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.