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Realism, Ethics and Secularism

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Realism, Ethics and Secularism

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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 essays offer perspectives on George Eliot, Thackeray, the Positivists, and the Scientific Naturalists, and reassess the complex relationship between Ruskin and Darwin. In readings of Lawrence and Coetzee, Levine addresses Victorian and modern efforts to push beyond the limits of realist art by testing its aesthetic and epistemological limits in engagement with the self and the other. Some of Levine's most important contributions to the field are reprinted, in revised and updated form, alongside previously unpublished material. Together, these essays cohere into an exploration both of Victorian literature and culture and of ethical, epistemological, and aesthetic problems fundamental to our own times.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
294
Release Date:
2012-07-26
Publication Date:
2011-05-19
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0521349494
ISBN13:
9780521349499
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
429 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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