Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel / Anne DeWitt.

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DeWitt, Anne

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culturePublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781461936480
1461936489
9781139566384
1139566385
9781316600948
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9781107241770
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9781139891653
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral athority, men of science, and the Victorian novel.DDC classification:

823.809 22

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PR868.S34 D4 2013eb

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Contents:

The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalism -- Moral uses, narrative effects: natural history in the novels of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell -- "The actual sky is a horror": Thomas Hardy and the problems of scientific thinking -- "The moral influence of those cruelties": the vivisection debate, antivivisection fiction, and the status of Victorian science -- Science, aestheticism, and the literary career of H.G. Wells.

Summary: Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-266) and index.

Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.