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Darwin the Writer
E-bok, 2011
338 kr
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Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species , arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine …
Darwin the Writer
E-bok, 2011
338 kr
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Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species , arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine …
Question of the Aesthetic
E-bok, 2022
1434 kr
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This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same …
Question of the Aesthetic
E-bok, 2022
1434 kr
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This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same …
The Question of the Aesthetic
Av George Levine, George Levine
Inbunden, 2022
1599 kr
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This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same …
Darwin the Writer
Inbunden, 2011
560 kr
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine …
Dying to Know
Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England
E-bok, 2010
1655 kr
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" Dying to Know is the work of a distinguished scholar, at the peak of his powers, who is intimately familiar with his materials, and whose knowledge of Victorian fiction and scientific thought is remarkable. This elegant and evocative look at the move toward objectivity first pioneered by …
Realistic Imagination
English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly
Häftad, 1983
489 kr
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In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a …
Darwin and the Novelists
Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction
Häftad, 1992
371 kr
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Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists—from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."—Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature. "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of …
Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
E-bok, 2001
450 kr
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This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot''s writing by some of the most distinguished new and established scholars and critics of Victorian literature. The essays are comprehensive, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same …
Endurance of Frankenstein
Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel
Av George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher
Häftad, 1982
342 kr
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MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, …
Endurance of Frankenstein
Essays on Mary Shelley''s Novel
Av U. C. Knoepflmacher, George Levine
E-bok, 1982
565 kr
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MARY SHELLEY''s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book''s origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary''s stepsister Claire …
Realism, Ethics and Secularism
Essays on Victorian Literature and Science
Häftad, 2012
842 kr
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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 …
Realism, Ethics and Secularism
Essays on Victorian Literature and Science
Inbunden, 2008
1778 kr
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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 …
Darwin and the Novelists
Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction
Inbunden, 1988
878 kr
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Darwin’s theory thrust human life into time and nature and subjected it to naturalistic rather than spiritual or moral analysis. Insisting on gradual and regular–lawful–change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological …
Darwin Loves You
Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that …
Joy of Secularism
11 Essays for How We Live Now
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writersCan secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the secular view simply affirm a dog-eat-dog universe? At a time when the issues of religion, evolution, …
Boundaries of Fiction
Häftad, 2015
529 kr
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How does Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman sustain the values of old traditions and at the same time meet the challenge of contemporary Victorian experience is the subject of Professor Levine's book. Like the novelists of the period upon whom they had great influence, these three writers were seeking …
Boundaries of Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
2215 kr
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How does Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman sustain the values of old traditions and at the same time meet the challenge of contemporary Victorian experience is the subject of Professor Levine's book. Like the novelists of the period upon whom they had great influence, these three writers were seeking …
Politics of Research
Av George Levine, E. Ann Kaplan
Häftad, 1997
371 kr
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"Eloquent, provocative, and timely, these essays provide a thoughtful, undoctrinaire defense of the centrality of the humanities to higher education--and society--at the millennium."--Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton The crisis in the humanities and higher education intensifies daily. The …
Reading Thomas Hardy
Inbunden, 2017
677 kr
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This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an …
The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
Inbunden, 2019
1010 kr
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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into …
Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
E-bok, 2019
459 kr
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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot''s life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights …
Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
E-bok, 2019
454 kr
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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot''s life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights …
Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
E-bok, 2001
450 kr
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This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot''s writing by some of the most distinguished new and established scholars and critics of Victorian literature. The essays are comprehensive, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same …
Reading Thomas Hardy
Häftad, 2017
354 kr
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This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an …
The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
Häftad, 2019
486 kr
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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into …
Reading Thomas Hardy
E-bok, 2017
328 kr
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This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author''s often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an …
Reading Thomas Hardy
E-bok, 2017
338 kr
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This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author''s often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an …
Darwin Loves You
Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
E-bok, 2008
478 kr
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Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that …
