Abstract

1. Introduction Part I. The Subject Broached: Otherness, Epistemology, and Ethics: 1. George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality Part II. Ethics Without God, or, Can 'Is' be 'Ought': 2. Is life worth living? 3. Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter 4. Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith 5. In defense of positivism 6. How science isn't literature: the importance of differences Part III. Literature, Secularity, and the Quest for Otherness: 7. Victorian realism 8. Dickens, secularism and agency 9. The heartbeat of the squirrel 10. Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.

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