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  • The Question of the Aesthetic

    Edited by George Levine ...
    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 time as it demonstrates that focus on the aesthetic does not preclude attention of the urgent questions ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Joy of Secularism

    11 Essays for How We Live Now

    Edited by George Levine ...
    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, atheism, fundamentalism, Darwin, and science fill headlines and invoke controversy, The Joy of ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

    Edited by George Levine, Nancy Henry ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    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 the work of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, author most famously of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Reading Thomas Hardy

    by George Levine ...
    Series series Reading Writers and their Work
    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 overview of Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Darwin Loves You

    Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World

    by George Levine ...
    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 "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

    Edited by George Levine ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    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 time offer original insights into the work of one of the most important Victorian novelists, and into ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Darwin the Writer

    by George Levine ...
    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 suggests that much of its influence was due, in fact, to its artistry; to the way it was written. Alive ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Profession 2012

    by Jack Halberstam, Imani Perry, Christopher Freeburg, B. Venkat Mani, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Wayne C. Booth, James A. Castaeda, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Helene Moglen, Gerald Graff, Claire J. Kramsch, Judith Ryan, Henry Louis Jr. Gates, George Levine, Erik D. Curren, Jack H. Schuster, John Guillory, Dorothy James, Mara Holt, Leon Anderson, Alan Liu, Heidi Byrnes, Mary Louise Pratt, Philip Lewis, Domna C. Stanton, Christopher Newfield, Reed Way Dasenbrock ...
    Series series Profession
    This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark the journal’s thirty-fifth anniversary, the issue also features a retrospective sampling of ... Read more

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  • So Damn Beautiful: The Lonely One (So Damn Beautiful, #1)

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    Series Book 1 - So Damn Beautiful
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  • The Missing Element

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    Series series James Becker Suspense/Thriller Series
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  • Work. Rest. Repeat.

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    by Frank Tayell ...
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