George Levine Explained

George Levine
Birth Date:	27 August 1931
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Occupation:	English literature professor

George Levine (born 1931) is an American professor of English literature who spent his career at Rutgers University.

Biography

George Levine was born August 27, 1931, in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1952 and his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1953 and 1959, respectively. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 through 1955. After working as an instructor and professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1959 through 1968, he moved to Rutgers University, where he taught from 1985^[1] through his retirement in 2006.^[2] He occupied the named chair Kenneth Burke Professor of English for his last two decades there.

Selected works

• Darwin the Writer (2011)^[3]
• How to Read the Victorian Novel (2008)^[4]
• Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World (2006)^[5]
• Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England (2002)
• An Annotated Critical Bibliography of George Eliot (1988)
• Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1988)
• The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley (1981)
• The Boundaries of Fiction: Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman (1968)

Notes and References

1. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/levine-george-1931-george-lewis-levine
2. Web site: Friends of Rutgers - A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of the Department of English .
3. • Farina . Jonathan V. . Literary Histories of the Natural Historical Book . Victorian Literature and Culture . 44 . 2 . 411–421 . 2016 . 10.1017/S1060150315000704 . 1060-1503 . 43923372 . 163662094 . mdy-all .
   • Glendening . John . Review of Darwin the Writer . The Hardy Review . 14 . 2 . 93–98 . 2012 . 1934-8908 . 45301008 . mdy-all .
   • Padel . Ruth . Darwin the Writer by George Levine (review) . Common Knowledge . 20 . 1 . 147–148 . 2014 . 10.1215/0961754X-2375015 . 147170747 . 1538-4578 . . mdy-all .
   • Ryan . Robert M. . Review of Darwin the Writer . The Wordsworth Circle . 42 . 4 . 283–284 . 2011 . 10.1086/TWC24043180 . 0043-8006 . 24043180 . mdy-all .
4. Paroissien . David . Review of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel; How to Read the Victorian Novel; Our Victorian Education . Dickens Quarterly . 25 . 2 . 124–127 . 2008 . 0742-5473 . 45292164 . mdy-all .
5. • Homans . Margaret . Donald . Diana . Munro . Jane . Museum . the Fitzwilliam . Art . the Yale Center for British . Bedell . Rebecca . Beer . Gillian . Bindman . David . Olsen . Jan Eric . Kendall . Richard . Levine . George . Smith . Jonathan . Darwin at Yale . Victorian Literature and Culture . 38 . 1 . 312–318 . 2010 . 1060-1503 . 25733473 . mdy-all .
   • Knoper . Randall . Smith . Barbara Herrnstein . Levine . George . Grosz . Elizabeth . Wilson . Elizabeth . Livingston . Ira . Fresh Networks: Science, Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies . College Literature . 35 . 4 . 198–213 . 2008 . 0093-3139 . 25114381 . mdy-all .
   • McInnis . Gilbert . Levine . George . The Claim for an Enchanted Secularity . Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) . 14 . 1 . 171–175 . 2008 . 1218-7364 . 41274415 . mdy-all .
   • Pennock . Robert T. . Levine . George . Wilson . David Sloan . Evolution—Once More, with Feeling . American Scientist . 95 . 6 . 528–531 . 2007 . 10.1511/2007.68.528 . 0003-0996 . 27859062 . mdy-all .
   • Radick . Gregory . Review of Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World . Victorian Studies . 50 . 2 . 337–339 . 2008 . 10.2979/VIC.2008.50.2.337 . 0042-5222 . 40060349 . 201743052 . mdy-all .
   • Ryan . Robert M. . Review of Darwin Loves You . The Wordsworth Circle . 39 . 4 . 190–191 . 2008 . 10.1086/TWC24045247 . 0043-8006 . 24045247 . mdy-all .