Books written by George Levine
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Darwin the Writer
Meisel, Perry, Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed, A Study of the Major Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972). Miller, Jonathan, Darwin for Beginners (New York: Pantheon, 1982). Miller, Kenneth R., Finding Darwin's ...
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The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel
What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party.
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Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction
The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
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Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science
Essays on Victorian Literature and Science George Levine. because I want to know what it is like to be a ... Much modern criticism finds hypocrisy or self-deceit where Victorian writers were ostensibly aiming at sympathy and openness.
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Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
Without minimising or sentimentalising the harsh qualities of life governed by natural selection, and without deifying Darwin, this text makes a moving case for an enchanted secularism - a commitment to the value of the natural world and ...
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Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age
The Church, I For the history of the formation of museums in Europe see Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (New York: Routledge, ); David Carrier, Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of ...
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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
William Baker, “Preface,” in George Eliot, The Complete Shorter Poems of George Eliot, ed. Antonie van den Broek, 2 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005), Vol. I, p. xxv. William Baker, “Preface,” in George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy ...
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How to Read the Victorian Novel
How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White,...
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Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England
"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.
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Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England
"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.
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The Question of the Aesthetic
“ Reading for Form . ” Special issue , Modern Language Quarterly 61.1 ( 2000 ) . ... Why Read the Classics ? Trans . Martin McLaughlin . ... Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science . Charlottesville : University of ...
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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
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.
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The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
Bringing together distinguished historians, philosophers, scientists, and writers, this book shows that secularism is not a mere denial of religion.
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Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
" The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight.
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The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
This book provides a balanced and thoughtful approach for understanding an enlightened, sympathetic, and relevant secularism for our lives today.
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Boundaries of Fiction
... Newman de- fined it , might lead man to faith and to God . " But Reason , considered as a real agent in the world ... Critical Studies in Arnold , Emerson , and Newman ( Iowa City , 1942 ) , p . 139 . 10 The Idea of a University , pp ...
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The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel
What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party.
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Darwin the Writer
It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine suggests that much of its influence was due, in fact, to its artistry; to the way it was written.
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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
This volume of essays is comprehensively, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same time offers original insights into the work of one of the most important Victorian novelists, and into her complex and often scandalous career.