Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian by George Levine

By George Levine

George Levine is among the world's best students of Victorian literature and tradition. This number of his essays develops the major topics of his paintings: the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature, tradition and technology and the relation of data and fact to ethics. The essays supply views on George Eliot, Thackeray, the Positivists, and the medical Naturalists, and re-examine the advanced dating among Ruskin and Darwin. In readings of Lawrence and Coetzee, Levine addresses Victorian and glossy efforts to push past the boundaries of realist paintings through trying out its aesthetic and epistemological limits in engagement with the self and the opposite. a few of Levine's most crucial contributions to the sector are reprinted, in revised and up to date shape, along formerly unpublished fabric. jointly, those essays cohere into an exploration either one of Victorian literature and tradition and of moral, epistemological, and aesthetic difficulties primary to our personal times.

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