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001 2008018926
003 DLC
005 20081211083251.0
008 080425s2008 enk 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008018926
020 $a9780521885263 (hardback)
020 $a0521885264 (hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn221147503
035 $a(OCoLC)221147503
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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 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $aix, 283 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
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