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Cambridge University Press
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Subjects

History, Ethics, English literature, Realism in literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Secularism in literature, Literature and science, Science in literature, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Ethics, great britain, Knowledge, theory of, Great britain, intellectual life

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Great Britain

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19th century
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Realism, ethics and secularism: essays on Victorian literature and science
2008, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Part I.The subject broached: Otherness, epistemology, and ethics: George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality
Part II. Ethics without god, or, can "is" can be "ought": Is life worth living?; Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith; In defense of positivism; How science isn't literature: the importance of differences
Part III. Literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness: Victorian realism; Dickens, secularism and agency; The heartbeat of the squirrel; Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.

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Includes index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/356
Library of Congress
PR468.S34 L48 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL19968667M
ISBN 13
9780521885263
LCCN
2008018926
LibraryThing
6332320
Goodreads
6702794

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OL3516835W

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