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 tim[...]

In "Dying to Know", eminent critic George Levine makes a landmark contribution to the history and theory of scientific knowledge. This book explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. How, asks Levine, did[...]

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 it[...]