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LEADER: 01986cam a22003618a 4500
001 2008018926
003 DLC
005 20080505145805.0
008 080425s2008 nyu 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008018926
020 $a9780521885263 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR468.S34$bL48 2008
082 00 $a820.9/356$222
100 1 $aLevine, George Lewis.
245 10 $aRealism, ethics and secularism :$bessays on Victorian literature and science /$cGeorge Levine.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPart I.The subject broached: Otherness, epistemology, and ethics: George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality -- 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 -- 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.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
650 0 $aEthics$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature.
650 0 $aScience in literature.
650 0 $aRealism in literature.
650 0 $aSecularism in literature.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008018926-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008018926-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008018926-t.html