Title Realism, Ethics and Secularism : Essays on Victorian Literature and Science

Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I; II; III; Part I The subject broached: otherness, epistemology, and ethics; Chapter 1 George Eliot's hypothesis of reality; Part II Ethics without God, or, can "is" become "ought"?; Chapter 2 Is life worth living?; Chapter 3 Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Chapter 4 Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith; Chapter 5 In defense of Positivism; Chapter 6 Why science isn't literature: the importance of differences; Part III Literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness; Chapter 7 Realism Summary A unified collection of new and previously-published essays by one of the most important scholars of Victorian literature and culture Notes Print version record Subject 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. English literature Ethics Intellectual life Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Literature and science Realism in literature Science in literature Secularism in literature SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511437236 0511437234 1281903825 9781281903822

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