George Levine

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

George Levine
Born	(1931-08-27) August 27, 1931 (age 93) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	English literature professor

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.^[1]

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)

References

1. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/levine-george-1931-george-lewis-levine
2. "Friends of Rutgers - A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of the Department of English".
3. • Farina, Jonathan V. (2016). "Literary Histories of the Natural Historical Book". Victorian Literature and Culture. 44 (2): 411–421. doi:10.1017/S1060150315000704. ISSN 1060-1503. JSTOR 43923372. S2CID 163662094.
   • Glendening, John (2012). "Review of Darwin the Writer". The Hardy Review. 14 (2): 93–98. ISSN 1934-8908. JSTOR 45301008.
   • Padel, Ruth (2014). "Darwin the Writer by George Levine (review)". Common Knowledge. 20 (1): 147–148. doi:10.1215/0961754X-2375015. ISSN 1538-4578. S2CID 147170747. Project MUSE 532898.
   • Ryan, Robert M. (2011). "Review of Darwin the Writer". The Wordsworth Circle. 42 (4): 283–284. doi:10.1086/TWC24043180. ISSN 0043-8006. JSTOR 24043180.
4. Paroissien, David (2008). "Review of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel; How to Read the Victorian Novel; Our Victorian Education". Dickens Quarterly. 25 (2): 124–127. ISSN 0742-5473. JSTOR 45292164.
5. • Homans, Margaret (2010). 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 (eds.). "Darwin at Yale". Victorian Literature and Culture. 38 (1): 312–318. ISSN 1060-1503. JSTOR 25733473.
   • Knoper, Randall (2008). Smith, Barbara Herrnstein; Levine, George; Grosz, Elizabeth; Wilson, Elizabeth; Livingston, Ira (eds.). "Fresh Networks: Science, Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies". College Literature. 35 (4): 198–213. ISSN 0093-3139. JSTOR 25114381.
   • McInnis, Gilbert (2008). Levine, George (ed.). "The Claim for an Enchanted Secularity". Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS). 14 (1): 171–175. ISSN 1218-7364. JSTOR 41274415.
   • Pennock, Robert T. (2007). Levine, George; Wilson, David Sloan (eds.). "Evolution—Once More, with Feeling". American Scientist. 95 (6): 528–531. doi:10.1511/2007.68.528. ISSN 0003-0996. JSTOR 27859062.
   • Radick, Gregory (2008). "Review of Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World". Victorian Studies. 50 (2): 337–339. doi:10.2979/VIC.2008.50.2.337. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 40060349. S2CID 201743052.
   • Ryan, Robert M. (2008). "Review of Darwin Loves You". The Wordsworth Circle. 39 (4): 190–191. doi:10.1086/TWC24045247. ISSN 0043-8006. JSTOR 24045247.