Realism, Ethics and Secularism

by George Lewis Levine

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521885264
• ISBN13: 9780521885263
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"